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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) — A winged creature from ...

Bats from Oregon have now won the contest three years in a row. Top honors went this year to a bat named Hoary Potter and the Guano of Fire, which was photographed by Emma Busk, a wildlife technician ...

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 ...

The San Diego Humane Society honored World Wildlife Conservation Day with a first-time event: the successful release of a hoary bat equipped with a Motus tracking device, a first for this species in ...

Two Oregon bats will participate in this year's Bat Beauty Contest in hopes of winning the top prize for the Beaver State for the third year in a row. The Bureau of Land Management is hosting its ...