Please bring a guest or your family and join the San Diego River Park Foundation and Don Endicott for an special evening adventure to listen and look for bats as we walk along the San Diego River in Mission Valley. We will learn about bats and monitor their echolocation calls using bioacoustics. All ages welcome! This private donor event will take place at Grant Park where we are building the River Center. Come see the progress!
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.
Check out this news article by KPBS: Bat Season has begun in San Diego, where Natalie Borchardt and Don Endicott talk about the importance of bats for San Diego county.
