Bats

From Howard Lane to Onion Creek, bat colonies will lose roosting sites due to highway demolition. TxDOT is vowing to build them back.

Seeing the bats in Austin is an experience you will cherish. But there's a catch: The bats don't always show up.

Before bats fly south, join KUT News for a discussion about the local colonies and see the bats fly from the South Congress bridge.

Nobody really calls it "Bat City." It's just not a thing, really. But Google "Bat City," and Austin pops up. We couldn't let that lie.

Little Amal, a puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee, will walk through Huston-Tillotson University and the Texas State Capitol grounds on Friday night.

Mexican free-tailed bats are some of the most iconic animals in Austin and Central Texas. But how well do you really know them?

The Bracken Cave Preserve, outside of San Antonio, is home to as many as 20 million bats.

Break out the lawn chairs: You can watch the baby bats and their mothers' nightly emergence from several free pedestrian areas near the Congress Avenue Bridge.

The city's got the largest urban bat population in the world. The bats draw scores of tourists to the South Congress Bridge year-round, but they could face complications from planned construction nearby.

The state's wildlife department is trying to track the extent of a mass bat die-off caused by last week's storm and long-term migratory changes brought about by climate change.