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🦇Did you want to make trick or treating a little "batty" this year? Download our free pdf with "bat facts" that you can print off and include with your Halloween treat giveaway!
Sweet AND educational! #HappyBatWeek

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An excerpt from a printable "bat facts" sheet that can be included with Halloween treats.
October 27, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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🦇Educators! Our Alberta Bats Colouring & Activity Book is now available in French! Download the free PDF at albertabats.ca and bring a little bat learning into your classroom for Bat Week, Halloween, or any time of year.
#HappyBatWeek!
Close-up photo of a big brown bat on rough bark. Bold orange and white text announces a new French version of the bat activity book, aimed at teachers and timed for Bat Week and Halloween. It says the PDF is free at albertabats.ca. Alberta Community Bat Program logo and photo credit appear at the bottom. Illustrated bat hanging upside down from a leafy branch with its wings spread. The cover reads “Chauves-souris de l’Alberta” and “Livret de coloriage et d’activités.” A small “FR” appears in the lower corner. The same illustration of a bat hanging upside down from a leafy branch with its wings spread. The cover reads “Alberta Bats” and “Colouring & Activity Book.”
October 21, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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#HappyHalloween and #HappyBatWeek!

Hang in there!
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October 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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#HappyBatWeek 🦇 🥰 🥳
October 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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#HappyBatWeek 🦇 😍 🥰
October 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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🦇A text version of Dr. Cori Lausen's "What on Earth?" interview last week is now up on CBC! ICYMI!
#HappyBatWeek!
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Bats are at risk in Canada, because wind turbines keep killing them | CBC Radio
Bats don’t exactly have a glowing public image. After all, they’re often associated with blood-sucking vampires, gloomy caves and all things spooky. But migratory bats in Canada are in desperate need ...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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🦇Scrub-a-dub! Bats are very fastidious when it comes to hygiene. #BatBaths #HappyBatWeek The cute you didn't know you needed today! #BigBrownBat
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How a Bat Stays Clean
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October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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#HappyBatWeek!
🦇Fun bat fact: bat echolocation calls are high frequency - so we can't hear them but they are LOUD! 120 decibels loud! Check out this short video from our channel - "How loud are they?"
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How Loud Are They?
YouTube video by Alberta Bats
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October 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Our #BatTeam is spread over two provinces - but we work together to help protect, conserve and better understand bats. #HappyBatWeek from the @wcscanada.org Western Bat Program!
October 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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#HappyBatWeek! Nothing prettier than a Hoary Bat nestled in a sage bush! This bat was found in a low roost in a tall sagebrush bush). Hoary Bats are our largest bat in Canada & migrate 2000km or more between summer & winter habitats. They are spectacular! #BatsAreBeautiful #BatsNeedFriends
Happy Bat Week! Celebrate bat diversity! www.albertabats.ca Alberta Community Bat Program logo. Photo of a Hoary Bat roosting in a light green sage brush bush by Ted Nanninga
October 30, 2023 at 4:01 AM
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#HappyBatWeek! It's time for some bat facts! Bat pups can weigh up to one-third of their mother's body weight. In human terms, that would be like giving birth to a toddler-sized baby! WOWZA! Good thing they only give birth to ONE each year! #AlbertaBats
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Bat Facts: Bat babies are called pups and can weigh up to a third of their mother's body weight at birth! Photo of a newborn Yuma Myotis pup on the tip of a gloved finger. Alberta Community Bat Program logo and small flying bat on a black background.
October 27, 2023 at 8:05 PM
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#HappyBatWeek! Alberta has 9 species of bats (& over half of them are currently considered endangered). To check on the "bat total" we look to batnames.org - a site run by bat experts who track earth's bats. Bat biodiversity is worth celebrating! #bats #biodiversity
Bat Week 2023, Bat Fact: Currently there are 1,469 species of bats known on our planet (and counting!) Alberta Community Bat Program logo - image of bats flying in a night sky.
October 24, 2023 at 9:50 PM