The Arizona Game and Fish Department is ramping up an effort to study two nectar eating bat species. They’re working with volunteers in southeastern Arizona that have agreed to monitor their hummingbird feeders by recording food levels at the beginning and end of the night and take photos.
Officials hope the information will add to the roughly 10 years of research that's already conducted on the animals, one of which is an endangered species.
"With climate change and everything of course we’re interested in how they’re doing with the changes that are going on within their environment and to the habitat," said Janine Spencer, the environmental projects manager with the town of Marana.
Officials say the data will be used in the development of habitat conservation plans in the region.
