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No trick! Oregon bat wins BLM's Bat Beauty Contest for third straight year

Hoary bat
Emma Busk
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BLM
Here he is: "Hoary Potter!" The fuzzy, hoary Oregon bat won the 2024 Bat Beauty Contest. The winner was announced on Halloween.

Following a week of tiny teeth-clenching competition, an Oregon bat has been named the winner of the 2024 Bat Beauty Contest, which is conducted by the Bureau of Land Management.

Hoary Potter, the feisty, hoary bat from Oregon, has come out on top.

Halloween marks the end of contest voting during International Bat Week. This is the third year in a row a bat from Oregon has taken first place in the Bureau of Land Management event.

The fuzzy fellow from Oregon defeated a western small-footed bat from Idaho named Lestat.

BLM wildlife technicians hope the event inspires more love for these “winged creatures of the night.”

Tiffany joined the KLCC News team in 2007. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and worked in a variety of media including television, technical writing, photography and daily print news before moving to the Pacific Northwest.
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