Merlin feeding a mealworm to a little big-eared bat (Micronycteris megalotis) in Trinidad, 2016
Born
(1941-08-26) August 26, 1941 (age 82)
Honolulu, Hawaii
Known for
Bat ecology and photography, conservationism
Title
Founder & Executive Director, Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation; Founder & Former Director, Bat Conservation International; Advisory Board Member, Disney's Animal Kingdom; Former Curator of Mammals, Milwaukee Public Museum; Research Fellow, Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin; Co-Director, Smithsonian Venezuelan Project
Awards
Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. Award
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Chuck Yeager Award
Chevron/Times-Mirror Conservation Award
Texas 77th Legislature House Resolution No. 1008 Commendation
Margaret Douglas Medal
The National Speleological Society Honorary Life Member
Honorary Doctorate Andrews University
Honorary Life Membership North American Society for Bat Research
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Academic background
Alma mater
Andrews University (BA) University of Kansas (MA, Ph.D.)
Academic work
Institutions
Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation; Bat Conservation International; University of Texas
Merlin Devere Tuttle (born August 26, 1941) is an American ecologist, conservationist, writer and wildlife photographer who has specialized in bat ecology, behavior, and conservation. He is credited with protecting the Austin Congress Avenue Bridge bat colony from extermination.[1][2][3][4] Tuttle is currently active as founder and executive director of Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation (MTBC) in Austin, Texas.
He also founded the conservation organizations Bat Conservation International, from which he retired in 2009, and helped establish the National Park of American Samoa.[5][6] Tuttle has also published research on gray bat population ecology migration,[7][8] and the frog-eating bats Trachops cirrhosus.[9]
Tuttle's photography of bats has been featured in numerous National Geographic Society publications, including 100 Best Pictures and 100 Years of Adventure and Discovery.[10][11][12][13] In 2002, the United States Postal Service released a commemorative stamp series featuring Tuttle's photographs.[14][15] In 2019, Tuttle served as science editor and photographer for the Smithsonian Books publication BATS: an illustrated guide to all species. He has received accolades for his research and conservation work, including the Gerritt S. Miller Jr. Award, and has been honored by the Texas State House of Representatives.[16]
In 2015, Tuttle published his memoir, The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures With the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals.[17][18][19]
^"Merlin's History in Bat Conservation - Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation". www.merlintuttle.org.
^"The Year Austin Wanted to Exterminate the Bats". September 24, 2019.
^"History of Austin's famous Congress Avenue bats flies from hysteria to city treasure". CultureMap Austin. 4 May 2018.
^"Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-13. Retrieved 2020-07-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^"BATS Magazine Article: BCI Helps Samoans Gain National Park". www.batcon.org.
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