The Jamaican flower bat, Phyllonycteris aphylla. Photo © Sherri and Brock Fenton.

Phillip Oelbaum named 2024 BCI Student Scholar!

Congratulations to Welch lab PhD student Phillip Oelbaum on being named a 2024 Student Scholar by Bat Conservation International for his project, entitled “Foraging and roosting ecology of Phyllonycteris aphylla in Jamaica.” More about Phil’s project (from the BCI page): The Jamaican flower bat, Phyllonycteris aphylla, is listed as critically endangered and until now was […]

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The Jamaican flower bat, Phyllonycteris aphylla. Photo © Sherri and Brock Fenton.

The Welch Lab returns to Jamaica!

Following a successful first field-trip in early 2023 resulting in a publication on two new breeding populations of the endangered Jamaican flower bat (Phyllonycteris aphylla), Phil Oelbaum and Jerrica Jamison, joined collaborator Damian Whyte and the Jamaica Caves Organization for more censusing of Jamaican “rat bats”!

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