![Researchers examine an evening bat while handling it for scientific measurements during a night of data collection on creek in Macon in 2015. The data collected that night is just one point in a just published seven year study of Georgia's bats.](https://www.gpb.org/sites/default/files/styles/flexheight/public/2023-04/bat_1.jpg?itok=WLLAu6cA)
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Researchers examine an evening bat while handling it for scientific measurements during a night of data collection on creek in Macon in 2015. The data collected that night is just one point in a just published seven year study of Georgia's bats.
Credit: Grant Blankenship/GPB