...). Apart from the exhaustive efforts involved in attending to affected sites, volunteer flying-fox carers simultaneously faced the challenge of rehabilitating large numbers of injured bats (Fig. 1). In NSW alone, there was a minimum estimate of 1,600 flying-foxes taken into care between December 2019...

... impacts on bats roosting at these sites (Currie 2000). A goal has been to find barrier designs that most successfully protect the public from harm, protect bat roosts from disturbance and minimize disruption of bat movements (Sherwin et al. 2009). Improved understanding of the response of different bat...

.... Microchiropteran bats were sampled opportunistically by searching roosting caves and by harp trapping along suitable flyways. At each site standardised searches were undertaken. Eight bird counts were conducted within a hectare based along the pitfall array. These counts were theoretically instantaneous, though...