It was a tense competition. Out of eight bats who were finalists in the Halloween beauty pageant, it was down to the dark-furred hoary bat from Oregon named Hoary Potter — against a western ...

Zeus, a hoary bat, rose from his nocturnal slumber to enjoy ... The site is visited by as many as 100,000 snow geese during their annual migration in late winter. “It would be nice to have ...

Hoary Potter, a male hoary bat, defeated Lestat, the western small-footed bat from Idaho, in the final round of the 2024 Bat Beauty Contest and took home first place. This victory marks the third ...

He’s Fast, Feisty and Could Play Quidditch. Meet the Bat That Won a Beauty Contest ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) — A winged creature from Oregon was crowned this year’s winner Thursday in an annual bat ...

In the end, Oregon came out on top for the third year in a row, and Hoary Potter — a hoary bat known for his feisty personality — was crowned the competition’s bat beauty queen. It’s no ...

The first round of voting began Thursday and pitted a Townsend’s big-eared bat named “Sir Flaps-A-Lot” from Utah against a hoary bat fittingly named “Hoary Potter” from Oregon. The contest coincides ...

On Halloween, which was also the last day of International Bat Week, a hoary bat with a feisty personality named "Hoary Potter" defeated "Lestat", the western small-footed bat from Idaho ...

ASHLAND, Ore. — A winged creature from Oregon was crowned this year's winner in an annual bat beauty contest put on by the Bureau of Land Management. On Halloween, which was the last day of ...

On Halloween, which was also the last day of International Bat Week, a hoary bat with a feisty personality named “Hoary Potter” defeated “Lestat”, the western small-footed bat from Idaho ...