As I said in Laooda's bat thread, my son is majoring in Wildlife Management and spent the summer working for a research firm. They trapped all sorts of bats from VA to ME and took blood, fur and isotope samples and attached radio transmitters to some and tracked them. He had a great time and I thought I'd share some of the pictures he sent me.
They came across an abandoned house and figured it would be full of bats but they found two baby Turkey vultures instead! They estimated them to be about a week or so old. They do have rapture permits so they took blood and feather samples.



They also accidentally caught a Barred owl. They just cut him out of the net and took some quick shots before releasing him.




And, of course, the bats. I don't remember exactly which ones are what but think I have these right.

Silver hair


Large brown


Small brown (I think those are right?)


And some Indiana bats. They are endangered (about 1/2 million left) so their work mainly focused on them.






I thought they were pretty cool, hope you enjoy them!