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Volusia County, Fla., Bat Conservation Operation Saves 1,000 Night Fliers.
Byline: Anthony Colarossi
Oct. 1--WINTER PARK, Fla.--Laura Finn usually moves bats because they're bothering people, but in her latest operation she evicted nearly 1,000 of the night fliers for a different reason: to save their lives.
It happened this weekend at the Fairbanks Avenue pedestrian overpass across Interstate 4 -- where five colonies of free-tailed bats have roosted for years. The bats had to move because the overpass is being torn down in the next few weeks as part of an I-4 widening project.
They had been living in five narrow crevices on the bridge's underside -- out of sight and sound to commuters rushing past on I-4. Late ...
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