Natural feature
Lady Bird Lake
Urban lake and trail loop beneath a bridge sheltering North America's largest urban bat colony.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Lady Bird Lake in Austin follows the Congress Avenue Bridge, the concrete span that accidentally became home to one of the world's largest urban bat colonies after a nineteen-eighty renovation. It traces the rabies panic that followed, when Austin considered exterminating the colony, and the biologist, Merlin Tuttle, who worked to change the city's mind. Best heard near sunset, watching the water below the bridge.
This audio guide was created using AI.