AUSTIN, Texas — Every March, thousands of Austin residents and tourists look up at the underside of the city's Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue, as they wait for over a million Mexican free-tailed bats ...

See 1.5 million bats swirl from Austin’s Congress Avenue Bridge at sunset, a wild urban show that draws thousands lakeside.

Finding something unique when traveling can be the highlight of a trip.  In Austin, Texas, few things are more unique ...

AUSTIN, Texas — One-and-a-half-million bats live inside the Congress Avenue Bridge downtown, and every night around sunset during the warmer months, they leave their home to hunt for a delicious ...

Two Austin residents moved back into their old homes Saturday after making full recoveries at rehab. Their names were Arlo and Willie, and they're Mexican free-tailed bats. Austin Bat Refuge (ABR) saw ...

Austin-based biologist and conservationist Merlin Tuttle helped Austin embrace its Mexican free-tailed bat colony. Catch up ...

If you live in the Austin area, you're no stranger to Mexican free-tailed bats and their majestic flight from underneath the Congress Avenue bridge. So on April 17, National Bat Appreciation Day, we ...

I had been to Texas countless times but had never visited Austin, the state’s capital. My wife had not been there either and heard there was a direct flight from Palm Springs. So, she arranged a trip, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — In the words of the beloved and viral video, “it’s frickin’ bats!” And in Central Texas, they aren’t just a Halloween-time sighting; they’re a significant part of the ecosystem, ...