Most kids won‘t go trick-or-treating until later tonight, but Halloween festivities started early for Oregon’s furriest winged resident — and brought in a well-deserved victory. Last week, the Bureau ...

This undated image provided by the Bureau of Land Management shows the bat Hoary Potter. (Emma Busk/Bureau of Land Management via AP) ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) — A winged creature from Oregon was crowned ...

An Oregon bat was once again declared the Bureau of Land Management's most beautiful bat for the third year in a row during the annual Bat Beauty Contest. Hoary Potter, a hoary bat, took home the ...

CARLSBAD, Calif. — The San Diego Humane Society’s Project Wildlife Program released a rehabilitated hoary bat equipped with a tracking transmitter on Wednesday, marking the first time this species has ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) — 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 ...