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Bracken Cave, on the northern outskirts of San Antonio, is home to the world’s largest bat colony, with more than 15 million Mexican free-tailed bats. It is a key maternity site for this species, and females congregate there each year to give birth and rear their young.
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Bracken Cave is a cave located in southern Comal County, Texas, outside the city of San Antonio. The 100-foot (30 m)-wide crescent shaped opening to the cave lies at the bottom of a sinkhole, formed when the roof of the cave collapsed. It is the summer home to the largest colony of bats in the world. An estimated 20 million Mexican free-tailed ...
Located less than 20 miles from downtown San Antonio, Texas, Bracken Cave Preserve is the largest bat colony in the world — home to over 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis).
Located roughly 30 miles northwest of San Antonio lies Bracken Bat Cave—the world’s largest bat colony. Each year, millions of Mexican free-tailed bats can be found roosting here between March and October. But this centuries-old wildlife habitat was once at risk of being developed.
Bat Emergence From Bracken Cave, Texas. Credit: Bat Conservation International. Bracken Cave, 20 miles outside of San Antonio, is the summer home to 15 million Mexican Free-tailed bats. Each night, the bats swarm out of the cave in a “batnado“ in search of food.
16 lip 2024 · Batnado at Bracken Cave is an incredible natural phenomenon with 20 million players. When newly hired meteorologists get to San Antonio, the first thing they have to learn is that the heavy showers they see forming on radar northeast of the city every summer evening have nothing to do with rain.
16 lip 2024 · Batnado at Bracken Cave is an incredible natural phenomenon with 20 million players | Texas Standard. Nightly in the summer months, between 10 and 20 million bats stream out of Bracken Cave to dine on bugs. TPR’s Jack Morgan takes us there on an audio journey.
