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1.1 Background

A number of acoustic surveys of long-tailed bats (Chalinolobus tuberculatus) have been carried out in the Hamilton City area from September 2011 to June 2017 including a comprehensive city-wide survey carried out by Kessels Ecology from September 2011-January 2012 which was the subject of an earlier Project Echo report (Le Roux & Le Roux, 2012). A list of data sources is provided in Appendix I (Table 2). These acoustic surveys have resulted in the availability of presence and absence data, enabling modelling of long-tailed bat distribution.