bat webcams

Austin Bat Hospital

The hospital is located in the beautiful countryside of central Texas which is also home to millions of bats. The largest urban bat colony lives right here in the heart of Austin. About a million Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) roost under the Congress Avenue bridge and they are the largest group of bats in Austin. An estimated 20 million Free-tailed bats give birth to their babies there each summer. So there are lots of little bats that live near us, and the Austin Bat Hospital accepts over a hundred tiny patients brought to us each year.

Beggingen's Mouse-eared bats

A Swiss site (in German) featuring Mouse-eared bats.

Canoe Creek State Park

This bat cam is located in the attic of a 19th Century church in Canoe Creek State Park. The attic serves as a maternity colony for close to 15,000 Little Brown bats and 30-100 endangered Indiana bats. That makes the church home to Pennsylvania's largest breeding population of Little Brown bats and the state's only known maternity colony of Indiana bats.

The best time to view the Bat Cam is just before sunset and just before sunrise (local time). This is when the bats are most active as they leave and return to the attic.

Nassau's Mouse-eared bats

Another German site featuring a nursery colony of Mouse-eared bats.

BBC Springwatch webcams

As part of their coverage of spring wildlife the BBC have rigged up a batcam at The Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall. The webcam features a small group of male Greater Horseshoe bats and Common Pipistrelles.

WildWatch BatCam

Run by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, this camera is focused on a maternity colony of rare Townsend's Big-eared bats (Corynorhinus townsendii) on the ceiling of an old cabin in northeast Washington. It gives a picture of the ceiling inside an old log cabin that contains a maternity colony of the Townsend's Big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii). On a cool day a hundred of them may be clustered together at the top of the ceiling; on warm days they may be scattered individually or in dozens around the cabin ceiling. Around 8:30 or 9 p.m. (local time) they may be seen flying to leave the cabin to forage for food. As it is a maternity roost the batcam is only active during the summer months.