About 250,000 Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) leave their bachelor cave overlooking the San Luis Valley in South Central Colorado. The unusual sparkling effect occurs when sunlight streams through their translucent wings. Every June, these bats leave the rest of their colony in Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico and head northward to form the largest bat colony in the State of Colorado. Situated high above the valley floor, on a mountainside on the east side of the San Luis Valley, the
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