Please join us for an evening adventure to listen and look for bats as we walk with bat expert Don Endicott. We will learn about bats and monitor their echolocation calls using bioacoustics. After our bat walk we will return to the River Center at Grant Park to view the moths that have been attracted to our UV light. All ages welcome. Sign up early, space is limited and our Nature Nights events fill up quickly.
Please bring a flashlight or headlamp and wear long pants and close toed shoes.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
Don Endicott
A retired civilian research engineer and executive in the field of Navy Communications and Network Technologies in San Diego, Don discovered a second career as a volunteer naturalist. He is a National Association of Interpretation Certified Interpretive Guide and Mission Trails Regional Park Trail Guide as well as public educator for the San Diego Natural History Museum and the San Diego Humane Society as a member of Project Wildlife’s “Bat Team”. Don presents multi-media talks on Bats and Mountain Lions at regional venues such as Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, Mission Trails Regional Park, and Agua Caliente County Park. He was recognized as Anza-Borrego Desert State Park’s volunteer Naturalist of the Year in 2018. He contributes full spectrum bat echolocation call recordings to the San Diego Natural History Museum and Wildlife Acoustics, a bioacoustics monitoring systems company, where they have been incorporated into reference libraries for species identification. He is a field contributor to herpetofauna surveys and monitors nesting Peregrine Falcons for the National Park Service and US Fish & Wildlife Service. Don is co-author of 50 Best Short Hikes San Diego (Wilderness Press, 2018) with the late Jerry Schad.
H. Valtierra
Hector is a microbiology and general biology professor at San Diego community colleges. He is an avid iNaturalist user and wildlife photographer. After our bat walk we will return to the River Center at Grant Park to view the moths that have been attracted to our UV light.
