TY - JOUR
TI - Echo-Location Failure in Migratory Bats
AU - Gelder, R
T2 - Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science
AB - In the nights of October 1 and 7, 1954, and September 23, 1955, red bats (Lasiurus borealis), totalling five, crashed into the WIBW-TV television tower at one mile west of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. Members of the Topeka Audubon Society collected the bats together with more than 1,000 birds at the base of the 950 foot tower, and presented the specimens to the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History. A study of birds killed by crashing into the tower has been prepared (Tordoff and Mengel, Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., in press). Previously the latest seasonal record of a red bat in Kansas was September 20 (Cockrum, Univ. Kansas Publ., Mus. Nat. Hist., 7:76, 1952). The red bats (3 males, 2 females) killed at the tower extend the known period of occurrence of the red bat in Kansas from April 26 (ibid.) to October 7. 
DA - 1956/01//
PY - 1956
VL - 59
IS - 2
SP - 220
EP - 222
UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3626963
DO - 10.2307/3626963
LA - English
KW - Bats
KW - Birds
ER -