October 8, 2025 • 15 mins
Just in time for Halloween, Dr. Daisy Fiore, who coordinates the education programming for the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey, shares some fascinating facts about bats and the important role they play in the ecosystem.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sh yues.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Speaking of Florida, we got our own Florida Men beer.
Cigar City Brewing makes a beer.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Called Florida Man. It's good too, and all over to Cannas,
trailer parks and rednecks.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
This stuff is pretty hilarious and check it out.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
It's a good ass beer too. By the way, they
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Speaker 1 (00:56):
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now please welcome back one of certainly Jimmy's favorite guests.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Absolutely adore, she's so great.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
One of our favorite guests as well, doctor Daisy Fiori
from the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey. You know
last time she was here, Jimmy, you were gone. I
think it was your golf tournament.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It may have been.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
It was a while.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Ago, but that was when we had Daisy on talking
about her cryptid podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes, yes, And since then I've been to Mothman Festival,
West Virginia. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I lived there for a short period of time. Oh yeah,
there is a big, big deal up there, a lot
of people. If you talk ill about the Mofman, they
will throw you in the river. Yeah. Yeah, it is
a big deal. Multiple sightings on a major movie starring
Richard Gears.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yes, there's a museum, there's all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
The festival was twenty five thousand people.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Yeah, it was a blast.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
It was so fun.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I gotta tell you, man, I believe that thing has
probably been spotted as much as the damn Bigfoot. I
mean there's a there's a spate of sightings. And even
though West Virginia, when you look at it like area wise,
is a relatively small state, it is quite rugged though, and.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Very There's a lot of like old folklore, like Appalachian folklore,
and superstitions like that are very unique to that part
of the country. Everything from what you don't do, like
old chimneys, dug the landscape that you don't knock down.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
There's whole rules out there. And I saw a whole
bunch of mountain new in meth Ye.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh yeah. West Virginia's big for cryptis. I also went
to the flat Woods Monster Museum.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Oh really, that was fun.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
They've got a lot of bigfoot sidings. They have a
Bigfoot museum. I also spent the night in the trans
Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
That's in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
No, that isn't really I've heard of that, but I
thought it was on Is it on the border?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
There?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Is it close?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Man?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
For some reason, I thought that was associated with Pennsylvania
for some reason.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
No, it's pretty deep in West Virginia, but it's massive.
It's apparently the largest cut sandstone building in the world
other than the Kremlin.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
That's right, I remember that. We whoa, I remember, we're
reading an entire bit about that thing.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
It's crazy, right.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Yeah, it's really famous.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It didn't close until nineteen ninety six, right, yeah, I know, Yeah,
this was operational until ninety six.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
I lived in a little going to open it back
up any day.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I lived in a little town called Oak Hill, which
is just shy of the New River Gorge Bridge, which
was one of the major like tourist attractions in West Virginia.
They shut that thing down for one or two weekends
a year because it's got double roads and you can
either bungee jump or free base dive or do all
this stuff. And then some of the best rapids in
America run in that state as well. But it is
(03:47):
they call it wild Wonderful West Virginia for a reason.
It is cray if you haven't seen the wild wonderful
Whites of West Virginia. No, yeah, yeah, Jessper I forget
is Jesper White or whatever. He was a famous clogger
and they're entire family with just the craziest pill heead maniacs.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I's gonna say, because if you say something about West
Virginia whites.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I'm like, I'm not saying any you ever checked that out.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
It's a wacky place, fun though it was good.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So you're here with the autumbn Birds of Preye Society.
Of course, I know that we usually have a little
feathered friend with us.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Today birdless today. All our birds were booked solid this week.
I'll be damn really booked solid. We are so busy
right now. We're closed construction. We hope to be.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Reopen end of the year, beginning of next year, but
we are doing so many community events out and about
that the birds. The birds can't work more than two
days a week. Really, yeah, I know, I know they're
spoiled that there were just no birds available.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
So busy.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Tomorrow we're at Trout Lake Nature Center north of a
Popka for their fundraiser. Saturday we're out and about again.
We're up back to Nature Rehab Center Crazer. So it's
a blast next week where it come out with pride
a Lake Eola.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
It's gonna be huge. And then the following week.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
We're at Louby bat Festival up in Gaines Villet. I'll
be damn come to Louby Bat Festival. It's for bat conservation.
I mean it's a bit of a drive up to Gainesville.
But if you're looking for something spooky, there's a beer garden.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I mean, it's not that big of a romany. It's
just just north of Bacalo up there. It takes no
time on seventy five to get up there, like forty
five minutes an hour maybe max.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yeah, Luby's a little further okay, but like beer garden.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
So we were in a beer garden. Did you hear
that part in your garden?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
We were in Jamaica recently and we went into this
place called the green Grotto Cave and you're walking around,
which is in a I mean, just amazing. They shot
some double O seven movies there. It's it's just a
bananas formation of limestone caves that they you know, you
can walk through there. Actually used to be a nightclub
in there back in the day. They turned it in
club and they shut that down and then of course
protected it. But you'll walk through and you'll see these
(05:58):
stains on the floor. You can't figure what's going on.
Then you'll look up, Oh yet bats and it's the
It ain't these cute little bats you see in Florida,
no big ones. You can hear these of it just
breathing like these are are bats. They're like fine cats bats.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well they've got all kinds of a loupy so you
can see the big fruit bag.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I think that's what these were.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, yeah, all kinds of back conservation.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, a lot of hanging upside, almost like that goth
night club video you see.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
On the Instagram or the hanging backs place for like
a goth night club with the bats, and they were Halloween.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
It was wild. I've never seen them news this before.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
There were there were like three hanging in this one
little you know, it's kind of little hole that was
up in the stone, like you see them like they
you know, and they were grooming each other.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I've not seen that behavior before with bats.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Bats are very social.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
They're actually one of the only animals proven to act
completely selflessly, like they'll adopt the babies of other bats,
even if they're not related to them and raise them
just out of the goodness of their heart.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And they get the most and of course, you know
Halloween coming up, they get a terrible reputation because of
all the band Empire movies and stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
But they're not.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
They're absolutely fascinating animals.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
They're great. But are they pollinators?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Are pollinators? And they actually there's certain things that can
only be pollinated by bats. One of them is chocolate,
no way, yes, and the other is the tequila.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Plants, really the god they can only.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Be pollinated by bats. So like, I couldn't live without
tequila and chocolate.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
So we were just in Mexico. We were just Mexico
on two of the tours. We did tequila and chocolate there.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Well, think about yelloween and that one.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Those are ancient crops as well, aren't they?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
And we were in Cosmel and it's funny they we
did this whole tour of uh, this tequila factory.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
They never really mentioned that. That's a fascinating fact. How
can they leave that you're trying to sell me a.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Bottle exactly without telling you the reason why.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's just like the whole But Cardi having the bat
as their logo was because when they bought that distiller,
it was just full of bats.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And actually Bacardi does a lot of back conservation work
because it's their logo. So I don't know. I always
buy Bacardi if I'm gonna buy Rome.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Because it goes down animals.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So I'm not.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
We should have a brewery and autubon right owl ale
or something that'd be fun.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
So let me ask, is the winter approaches. We know
that there are a lot of the birds that we
know are migratory. I don't think any of the I
don't know if raptors are migratory.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I know that you guys there are, are they really?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
So how do you is prepare for that when winter
kind of comes in and these birds usually are maybe
going even more south than they are here in suid
of Florida.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
How do you guys do that?
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Well, we've got two types with three types here.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Some birds come to Florida for the winter because we're
pretty warm.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Some birds leave, and some birds pass through. So right
now our.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Eagles are coming back. So our eagles spend summer in Canada.
So we're getting to yeah too hot, which that's the
right way to do it. Great fishing up there, Yeah, yes,
So our eagles are coming back, so we're getting the
first of the eagles. So they all come back to Florida.
They go back to their nest and then they all
get in fights over who's going to be where. So
(09:12):
we're getting the territory fight eagles and right now that
have come back and immediately gotten fights and we get
the losers.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
So we've already got animal.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Well that they are, so they've already gotten a couple
of them. We've already released a couple.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Just this morning, we released an eagle. Actually, so soon
we'll get the babies because they're all nest building, so
the babies will start falling out of nassas eagle babies do.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
We have some of the.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Migratory birds passing through. We actually got a very exciting
bird in the clinic right now. We have a Merlin falcon.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Oh really, whoa Now what separates that from like the
peregrine or other falcons that you brought in that we've
we've actually got to experience much rarer.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
So Merlin's only like migrate through here. So she was
on her migration and gotten to some kind of accident.
We're not sure she has a wing injury, but we
actually have not released a Merlin falcon since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Wow, they're that rare, so we're pretty excited to have her,
and we think she's going to be releasable. We think
she'll Yeah, that's exciting.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
And that's relatively relatively rare in itself. Right.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
A lot of the birds that come into the program,
the injuries are too drastic, hit by a car, injured
by another animal, you know, like you're saying in a fight.
Didn't turn out so well for them, and you guys
wind up caring for those birds.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
For a while.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Matter of fact, a lot of the birds that you
have part of the program, are those birds, are they not?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Yeah, all of our.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
All of our residents came in as patients can be released.
Our release rates about fifty percent, which is considered very
high after world. It depends on the age group. Babies
actually have a much higher release rate because they you know,
they're babies.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
They're yeah, exactly more resilient.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
It's going to be a little more healable and all that.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So. Yeah, you know, we've already got some my migratory ones,
which is why we're trying to get our construction out
of the way right now, trying to get it done
so we have room because baby seasons, you know, it's
gonna hit us fall in the face in the three
months or something.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, it's I mean not just you guys.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I mean we hear about all the shelters around this
area being like literally a capacity. I mean we went
to we dropped by one a couple of weeks Agoup
in Lake County, just kind of look around and see
what was out there, and they were like doing bogo cats.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
I have cats on our property. We did for some feral.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Cats just had their kittens behind one of our eight
years and I was like, I need to get you
to safety before you wander in. Exactly, great horned owl,
exactly tiny tiny kitten.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Just need you guys to understand you are not the
apex predator on this location here right now.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I did want to ask one more question. I know
we time. So you said they come back and they
build nests.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
So I was always under the understanding and the reason
why is because of the giant eagle nests that's at
the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex, right. Yeah, So when
they leave to migrate up north, you know, to go
do their thing during the during the summer, so they
don't use those same nests when they go.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
They absolutely do.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
They come back to their exact same nests. They meet
up with their exact same mate and they do repairs.
We call it nes duration.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
So they come back to their nest. They got to
do some rebuilding.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
It got messed up throughout the year, you know at
a second bedroom. You know, maybe this year they want
an open floor plan where they'll work on that for
you know, a month or two and then sterling eggs.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Eggs, thanks very much for clearing that up.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And the other thing is like, for a while, Jack
would have a static camera that's on an eagle's nest.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I do not know where it is, but that one
was on a captiva was it.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
A captive island camp. They're literally hundreds yeah, and wow,
it's so.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Fun to the parents were raising you know, a couple
of the babies. I think they actually lost one of
them the process, but one made it to adulthood. But
the one thing we noticed and we actually used to
get to the complaints about on the texting service, like hey,
can you switch that camera because they would like bring
food up, you know, animals kills fish, whatever the case
may be, and the bones were just kind of laying
(13:08):
in the nest. I'm like, yeah, it doesn't seem like
something they would do. Do they not clean that out,
Like when they're done with the with the carcass or whatever,
they don't put that off to the side.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
These kind of live with that.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, this doesn't bother them. No, I mean some birds
are messier than other birds, but yeah, eagles are pretty messy.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And speaking of birds, somebody did text us at seven
seven zero three one saying they're not migrating as much
anymore and it's ruining the ecosystem.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
What can you tell us about that?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So with climate change, a lot of birds are changing
their behavior, and so there are some birds who just
don't feel the need to migrate. They're like, eh, that's
warm enough where I'm at, or some birds who are
migrating at different times, and it is really changing certain things.
So yeah, we are seeing a lot of differences in migration. Weirdly,
with the eagles, we've seen them come back to Florida earlier,
(13:56):
which is odd. You think they'd stay in Canada longer,
it's nicer for longer, but that's not what we saw.
So unfortunately, sometimes they're coming back before hurricane season's done,
and so they're like fixing up their nest all nice,
and then a hurricane messes it up and they have to.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Redo it and then exactly trying to rebuild in this stage.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
We saw that last year and then we were worried
they wouldn't get it rebuilt in time to lay. So yeah,
with those terrible hurricanes we had last year, knock on
when we've been this year.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But so, where do folks go to like an email
address if maybe they have a school event they'd like
to book the Audubon Center for Birds of Press, Oh
please do.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
We're doing tons of off sites right now. You can
email me at Audubon CBOP at Audubon dot org.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
We're also have a.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Behind the scenes virtual program right now on our website
that we're selling for just forty dollars and it comes
with the package of worksheets.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
If you've ever.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Wanted to actually see the behind the scenes animal care
at our facility, you can book that. It's great for homeschoolers.
Third even a lesson with worksheets.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Aw So thank you Daisy Furyory love for texting service
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Speaking of Florida, we got our own Florida Men beer.
Cigar City Brewing makes a beer.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Called Florida Man. It's good too, and all over to Cannas,
trailer parks and rednecks.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
This stuff is pretty hilarious and check it out.
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It's a good ass beer too. By the way, they
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I'm Jim Jackets right over there, and Deb has Animal House.
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She likes them fuzzy, three, feathery, tough and scaly. It's
time for Animal House with Roberts.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And Animal House is generously brought to us each and
every week by person lenjury attorney Glenn Klausman over at
Klosman Law. We'll tell you how you can get in
touch with Glenn at the end of the segment. But
now please welcome back one of certainly Jimmy's favorite guests.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Absolutely adore, she's so great.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
One of our favorite guests as well, doctor Daisy Fiori
from the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey. You know
last time she was here, Jimmy, you were gone. I
think it was your golf tournament.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It may have been.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
It was a while.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Ago, but that was when we had Daisy on talking
about her cryptid podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes, yes, And since then I've been to Mothman Festival,
West Virginia. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I lived there for a short period of time. Oh yeah,
there is a big, big deal up there, a lot
of people. If you talk ill about the Mofman, they
will throw you in the river. Yeah. Yeah, it is
a big deal. Multiple sightings on a major movie starring
Richard Gears.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yes, there's a museum, there's all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
The festival was twenty five thousand people.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Yeah, it was a blast.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
It was so fun.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I gotta tell you, man, I believe that thing has
probably been spotted as much as the damn Bigfoot. I
mean there's a there's a spate of sightings. And even
though West Virginia, when you look at it like area wise,
is a relatively small state, it is quite rugged though, and.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Very There's a lot of like old folklore, like Appalachian folklore,
and superstitions like that are very unique to that part
of the country. Everything from what you don't do, like
old chimneys, dug the landscape that you don't knock down.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
There's whole rules out there. And I saw a whole
bunch of mountain new in meth Ye.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh yeah. West Virginia's big for cryptis. I also went
to the flat Woods Monster Museum.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Oh really, that was fun.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
They've got a lot of bigfoot sidings. They have a
Bigfoot museum. I also spent the night in the trans
Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
That's in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
No, that isn't really I've heard of that, but I
thought it was on Is it on the border?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
There?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Is it close?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Man?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
For some reason, I thought that was associated with Pennsylvania
for some reason.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
No, it's pretty deep in West Virginia, but it's massive.
It's apparently the largest cut sandstone building in the world
other than the Kremlin.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
That's right, I remember that. We whoa, I remember, we're
reading an entire bit about that thing.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
It's crazy, right.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Yeah, it's really famous.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It didn't close until nineteen ninety six, right, yeah, I know, Yeah,
this was operational until ninety six.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
I lived in a little going to open it back
up any day.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I lived in a little town called Oak Hill, which
is just shy of the New River Gorge Bridge, which
was one of the major like tourist attractions in West Virginia.
They shut that thing down for one or two weekends
a year because it's got double roads and you can
either bungee jump or free base dive or do all
this stuff. And then some of the best rapids in
America run in that state as well. But it is
(03:47):
they call it wild Wonderful West Virginia for a reason.
It is cray if you haven't seen the wild wonderful
Whites of West Virginia. No, yeah, yeah, Jessper I forget
is Jesper White or whatever. He was a famous clogger
and they're entire family with just the craziest pill heead maniacs.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I's gonna say, because if you say something about West
Virginia whites.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I'm like, I'm not saying any you ever checked that out.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
It's a wacky place, fun though it was good.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
So you're here with the autumbn Birds of Preye Society.
Of course, I know that we usually have a little
feathered friend with us.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Today birdless today. All our birds were booked solid this week.
I'll be damn really booked solid. We are so busy
right now. We're closed construction. We hope to be.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Reopen end of the year, beginning of next year, but
we are doing so many community events out and about
that the birds. The birds can't work more than two
days a week. Really, yeah, I know, I know they're
spoiled that there were just no birds available.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
So busy.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Tomorrow we're at Trout Lake Nature Center north of a
Popka for their fundraiser. Saturday we're out and about again.
We're up back to Nature Rehab Center Crazer. So it's
a blast next week where it come out with pride
a Lake Eola.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
It's gonna be huge. And then the following week.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
We're at Louby bat Festival up in Gaines Villet. I'll
be damn come to Louby Bat Festival. It's for bat conservation.
I mean it's a bit of a drive up to Gainesville.
But if you're looking for something spooky, there's a beer garden.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I mean, it's not that big of a romany. It's
just just north of Bacalo up there. It takes no
time on seventy five to get up there, like forty
five minutes an hour maybe max.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yeah, Luby's a little further okay, but like beer garden.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
So we were in a beer garden. Did you hear
that part in your garden?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
We were in Jamaica recently and we went into this
place called the green Grotto Cave and you're walking around,
which is in a I mean, just amazing. They shot
some double O seven movies there. It's it's just a
bananas formation of limestone caves that they you know, you
can walk through there. Actually used to be a nightclub
in there back in the day. They turned it in
club and they shut that down and then of course
protected it. But you'll walk through and you'll see these
(05:58):
stains on the floor. You can't figure what's going on.
Then you'll look up, Oh yet bats and it's the
It ain't these cute little bats you see in Florida,
no big ones. You can hear these of it just
breathing like these are are bats. They're like fine cats bats.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well they've got all kinds of a loupy so you
can see the big fruit bag.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I think that's what these were.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, yeah, all kinds of back conservation.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, a lot of hanging upside, almost like that goth
night club video you see.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
On the Instagram or the hanging backs place for like
a goth night club with the bats, and they were Halloween.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
It was wild. I've never seen them news this before.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
There were there were like three hanging in this one
little you know, it's kind of little hole that was
up in the stone, like you see them like they
you know, and they were grooming each other.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I've not seen that behavior before with bats.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Bats are very social.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
They're actually one of the only animals proven to act
completely selflessly, like they'll adopt the babies of other bats,
even if they're not related to them and raise them
just out of the goodness of their heart.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And they get the most and of course, you know
Halloween coming up, they get a terrible reputation because of
all the band Empire movies and stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
But they're not.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
They're absolutely fascinating animals.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
They're great. But are they pollinators?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Are pollinators? And they actually there's certain things that can
only be pollinated by bats. One of them is chocolate,
no way, yes, and the other is the tequila.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Plants, really the god they can only.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Be pollinated by bats. So like, I couldn't live without
tequila and chocolate.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
So we were just in Mexico. We were just Mexico
on two of the tours. We did tequila and chocolate there.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Well, think about yelloween and that one.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Those are ancient crops as well, aren't they?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (07:41):
And we were in Cosmel and it's funny they we
did this whole tour of uh, this tequila factory.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
They never really mentioned that. That's a fascinating fact. How
can they leave that you're trying to sell me a.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Bottle exactly without telling you the reason why.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's just like the whole But Cardi having the bat
as their logo was because when they bought that distiller,
it was just full of bats.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And actually Bacardi does a lot of back conservation work
because it's their logo. So I don't know. I always
buy Bacardi if I'm gonna buy Rome.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Because it goes down animals.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So I'm not.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
We should have a brewery and autubon right owl ale
or something that'd be fun.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
So let me ask, is the winter approaches. We know
that there are a lot of the birds that we
know are migratory. I don't think any of the I
don't know if raptors are migratory.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I know that you guys there are, are they really?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
So how do you is prepare for that when winter
kind of comes in and these birds usually are maybe
going even more south than they are here in suid
of Florida.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
How do you guys do that?
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Well, we've got two types with three types here.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Some birds come to Florida for the winter because we're
pretty warm.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Some birds leave, and some birds pass through. So right
now our.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Eagles are coming back. So our eagles spend summer in Canada.
So we're getting to yeah too hot, which that's the
right way to do it. Great fishing up there, Yeah, yes,
So our eagles are coming back, so we're getting the
first of the eagles. So they all come back to Florida.
They go back to their nest and then they all
get in fights over who's going to be where. So
(09:12):
we're getting the territory fight eagles and right now that
have come back and immediately gotten fights and we get
the losers.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
So we've already got animal.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Well that they are, so they've already gotten a couple
of them. We've already released a couple.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Just this morning, we released an eagle. Actually, so soon
we'll get the babies because they're all nest building, so
the babies will start falling out of nassas eagle babies do.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
We have some of the.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Migratory birds passing through. We actually got a very exciting
bird in the clinic right now. We have a Merlin falcon.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Oh really, whoa Now what separates that from like the
peregrine or other falcons that you brought in that we've
we've actually got to experience much rarer.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
So Merlin's only like migrate through here. So she was
on her migration and gotten to some kind of accident.
We're not sure she has a wing injury, but we
actually have not released a Merlin falcon since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Wow, they're that rare, so we're pretty excited to have her,
and we think she's going to be releasable. We think
she'll Yeah, that's exciting.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
And that's relatively relatively rare in itself. Right.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
A lot of the birds that come into the program,
the injuries are too drastic, hit by a car, injured
by another animal, you know, like you're saying in a fight.
Didn't turn out so well for them, and you guys
wind up caring for those birds.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
For a while.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Matter of fact, a lot of the birds that you
have part of the program, are those birds, are they not?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Yeah, all of our.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
All of our residents came in as patients can be released.
Our release rates about fifty percent, which is considered very
high after world. It depends on the age group. Babies
actually have a much higher release rate because they you know,
they're babies.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
They're yeah, exactly more resilient.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
It's going to be a little more healable and all that.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So. Yeah, you know, we've already got some my migratory ones,
which is why we're trying to get our construction out
of the way right now, trying to get it done
so we have room because baby seasons, you know, it's
gonna hit us fall in the face in the three
months or something.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah, it's I mean not just you guys.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I mean we hear about all the shelters around this
area being like literally a capacity. I mean we went
to we dropped by one a couple of weeks Agoup
in Lake County, just kind of look around and see
what was out there, and they were like doing bogo cats.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
I have cats on our property. We did for some feral.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Cats just had their kittens behind one of our eight
years and I was like, I need to get you
to safety before you wander in. Exactly, great horned owl,
exactly tiny tiny kitten.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Just need you guys to understand you are not the
apex predator on this location here right now.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
I did want to ask one more question. I know
we time. So you said they come back and they
build nests.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
So I was always under the understanding and the reason
why is because of the giant eagle nests that's at
the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex, right. Yeah, So when
they leave to migrate up north, you know, to go
do their thing during the during the summer, so they
don't use those same nests when they go.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
They absolutely do.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
They come back to their exact same nests. They meet
up with their exact same mate and they do repairs.
We call it nes duration.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
So they come back to their nest. They got to
do some rebuilding.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
It got messed up throughout the year, you know at
a second bedroom. You know, maybe this year they want
an open floor plan where they'll work on that for
you know, a month or two and then sterling eggs.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Eggs, thanks very much for clearing that up.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And the other thing is like, for a while, Jack
would have a static camera that's on an eagle's nest.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
I do not know where it is, but that one
was on a captiva was it.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
A captive island camp. They're literally hundreds yeah, and wow,
it's so.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Fun to the parents were raising you know, a couple
of the babies. I think they actually lost one of
them the process, but one made it to adulthood. But
the one thing we noticed and we actually used to
get to the complaints about on the texting service, like hey,
can you switch that camera because they would like bring
food up, you know, animals kills fish, whatever the case
may be, and the bones were just kind of laying
(13:08):
in the nest. I'm like, yeah, it doesn't seem like
something they would do. Do they not clean that out,
Like when they're done with the with the carcass or whatever,
they don't put that off to the side.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
These kind of live with that.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, this doesn't bother them. No, I mean some birds
are messier than other birds, but yeah, eagles are pretty messy.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And speaking of birds, somebody did text us at seven
seven zero three one saying they're not migrating as much
anymore and it's ruining the ecosystem.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
What can you tell us about that?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So with climate change, a lot of birds are changing
their behavior, and so there are some birds who just
don't feel the need to migrate. They're like, eh, that's
warm enough where I'm at, or some birds who are
migrating at different times, and it is really changing certain things.
So yeah, we are seeing a lot of differences in migration. Weirdly,
with the eagles, we've seen them come back to Florida earlier,
(13:56):
which is odd. You think they'd stay in Canada longer,
it's nicer for longer, but that's not what we saw.
So unfortunately, sometimes they're coming back before hurricane season's done,
and so they're like fixing up their nest all nice,
and then a hurricane messes it up and they have to.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Redo it and then exactly trying to rebuild in this stage.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
We saw that last year and then we were worried
they wouldn't get it rebuilt in time to lay. So yeah,
with those terrible hurricanes we had last year, knock on
when we've been this year.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But so, where do folks go to like an email
address if maybe they have a school event they'd like
to book the Audubon Center for Birds of Press, Oh
please do.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
We're doing tons of off sites right now. You can
email me at Audubon CBOP at Audubon dot org.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
We're also have a.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Behind the scenes virtual program right now on our website
that we're selling for just forty dollars and it comes
with the package of worksheets.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
If you've ever.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Wanted to actually see the behind the scenes animal care
at our facility, you can book that. It's great for homeschoolers.
Third even a lesson with worksheets.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Aw So thank you Daisy Furyory love for texting service
loves as well. Absolutely, I'll be posting the Animal House
podcast in just a few minutes. Just in case you
missed any of Daisy's fascinating facts about bats. But in
the meantime, Animal House has brought to you each and
every week by Glenn Klasman over at Klosman Law. Have
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