A resident in Strendur, Faroe Islands, filmed bats in her yard—an uncommon sight in the Faroes. The bat was seen over about four days before disappearing.
Users at the Sanaluttarfik workshop in Sisimiut found an unexpected visitor after a cruise-ship group left: a bat. The bat spent a night in the workshop and was later thrown away after staff discovered lice in its fur.
A resident in Kautokeino filmed what he first thought was a mouse, which turned out to be a small bat. A researcher says such a sighting this far north is rare and that the finder was lucky.
Observers in Baker Lake and Arviat recorded a yellow warbler on July 4 and a brown bat on July 6—species rarely seen above the tree line in Nunavut—highlighting ecological shifts in Arctic habitats.
Out of the eight species of bats in the Northwest Territories, residents are most likely to see the little brown bats.
Nick Major, a martial arts instructor, died Saturday after he had a random brush with a bat on Vancouver Island in May.
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