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New Hampshire wants help counting its bats

Fish and Game officials are leading an online training session Thursday including an overview of bats in New Hampshire, how to identify different species and how to participate in the New Hampshire Bat Counts Project.

This March 26, 2009 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a little brown bat with white-nose syndrome in the Greeley Mine in Stockbridge, Vt. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Marvin Moriarty)

By Associated Press

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire wildlife biologists are looking for help keeping track of the state’s bat population this summer.

Fish and Game officials are leading an online training session Thursday including an overview of bats in New Hampshire, how to identify different species and how to participate in the New Hampshire Bat Counts Project.

The project involves citizen volunteers who keep track of bats they spot outside barns or elsewhere on their property.

Officials say monitoring female bats and their young is particularly important in the face of white-nose syndrome, which has caused significant declines in bat populations throughout the Northeast.

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