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Article: Volusia County, Fla., Bat Conservation Operation Saves 1,000 Night Fliers.
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- October 1, 2002
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By Anthony Colarossi, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 1--WINTER PARK, Fla.--Laura Finn usually moves bats because they're bothering people, but in her latest operation she evicted nearly 1,000 of the night fliers for a different reason: to save their lives.
It happened this weekend at the Fairbanks Avenue pedestrian overpass across Interstate 4 -- where five colonies of free-tailed bats have roosted for years. The bats had to move because the overpass is being torn down in the next few weeks as part of an I-4 widening project.
They had been living in five narrow crevices on the bridge's underside -- ...