UW Researchers Capture Birds by Day, While STRI Catches Bats by Night
Published April 04, 2025
For decades, Corey Tarwater and her research team have used mist nets by day to capture various species of tropical birds in Panama to study the effects of global change on bird populations. Now, the University of Wyoming researcher is starting a new collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) to use the same mist net lanes to catch bats by night.
“We are really excited to collaborate with the bat team on this project. By working with them, we can figure out whether or not bats are responding the same way to climate that we’re seeing with the birds,” says Tarwater, a UW associate professor in the Department of Zoology and Physiology and the Robert B. Berry Distinguished Chair in Ecology, in an STRI story.
