Today, and many days before, just like before it is a fact that I have seen habitat loss as more houses are built near me. I have seen the effects because i’ve seen less, and less of certain animals. This is in riverside california. The location is an area called orange crest, or wood woodcrest. Look for the streets, van buren and washington and barton street
In the last ten years, there has been several housing projects that have reduced the availability of the open fields.
I did some field work a few years ago in my neighborhood, and I found that bats at night, will just sit in the fields. I don’t know everything about their the habitats, but the I can probably guarantee you there’s bats that live there in the grass. They don’t need a building, or a cave to live in, like most people think.
The way I found them is that I did surveys at night using really strong floodlights, going around the field. And the light will cause the bats to fly off.
it makes me think I should go build a bat box in that field and just put a note on it that it is a bat box and not to disturb it because it’s used for research. Good idea.
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