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Vanessa Gorecki
@vanessagorecki.bsky.social
Ecologist, PhD. Wildlife research and conservation.
Great day in the field collecting camera traps and observing brush-tailed rock-wallabies. Next up, cage traps and GPS collars. #wildliferesearch #threatenedspecies
August 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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From the University of Southern Queensland- Vanessa Gorecki presenting “From caves to culverts: Use of road culverts by trawling bats in an urban environment”.
#ibrc2025
August 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Trawling bats, like many bats, roost in culverts. But not all culverts are suitable roost sites. They're like urban caves really, and they're important to conserve in urban landscapes.

Check out my new publication for more detail.

#bat #trawlingbat #urbanecology #transportecology
Culvert design and position in the landscape predict the presence of trawling bat culvert roosts in an urban environment - Urban Ecosystems
Trawling bats occur in urban environments globally and are found roosting in artificial structures near water such as bridges and culverts. Culverts are suitable dark, thermally stable and often humid...
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June 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#bat recorders set up to collect baseline data on bat activity in agricultural landscapes. Hoping to hear lots of feeding buzzes as pest insects are consumed! @faunatech-au.bsky.social 🦇🦇
Installing bat audio monitors in darling downs Perennial pastures and annual crops for my colleague @vanessagorecki.bsky.social to collect baseline data on bat presence in these agricultural landscapes
June 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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A friendly reminder that there is now less than 2 weeks left to submit abstracts and travel grant applications!
Make sure to get your submissions in by the 30th of April 2025
#ibrc2025 #bats
April 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Reposted by Vanessa Gorecki
Want to visit Vanuatu, Bougainville or the Daintree?
The EOI form for post-conference field trips opens Wed 23 April at 9pm AEST (11am UTC) and stays open until mid-May or until full. Trip details, costs & itineraries now live: www.ibrc.org/field-trips....
#ibrc2025 #bats
April 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Come join our @ibrc2025.bsky.social symposium on constructed habitats for bat conservation. This will cover a range of artificial structures used or designed specifically for bats. Presentations from the session will be compiled into case studies for a special issue. Abstract submission open now!
April 23, 2025 at 3:58 AM