World Bird Sanctuary: This Weekend - MidWest BatFest 2014!

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

This Weekend - MidWest BatFest 2014!

Join us as we celebrate everything about the special bats that call Missouri home. During this two-day event at World Bird Sanctuary and Onondaga Cave State Park, you will find out all about why bats are important, what we can do to help them survive – and you will even meet live Missouri bats that are currently in rehabilitation!

This celebration is a partnership between World Bird Sanctuary, Missouri Bat Census, Missouri State Parks, Missouri Department of Conservation, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the US Forest Service.

Attend each venue and get your BatFest Passport (available free at each venue) stamped to be entered into a prize drawing.

MidWest BatFest 2014 activities:

Saturday, April 5^th

Onondaga State Park:

Bats at Onondaga Cave State Park
Photo: www.mostateparks.gov

Discounted cave tours with BatFest Passport
Live bats and education programs by Incredible Bats
Bat Kids Craft
White-nose Syndrome decontamination demonstration
White-nose Syndrome in Missouri presentation
Sunset Public Bat Mist-netting Demonstration at Onondaga State Park

Exhibitors:

Ozark Task Force – Cave Restoration display
Missouri Cave and Karst Conservancy
Missouri Bat Census

World Bird Sanctuary:

Sunset Public Bat Mist-netting at World Bird Sanctuary

Sunday, April 6^th

World Bird Sanctuary:

Pallid Bat, brought to World Bird Sanctuary for "Bat"urday 2013.
Photo: World Bird Sanctuary

Kids craft activity
Environmental education program featuring bats, barn owls, snakes – presented by World Bird Sanctuary
Missouri Bat Census presentation – Urban Bat Preservation
Bats of Missouri presentation featuring live Missouri bats
White-nose Syndrome in Missouri presentation
Missouri Bat Census bat-house building activity – throughout the day
“Battle for Bats” video running throughout the day in Visitor Information Center
RNA Free Electronics Recycling drop-off point