The WMD database is designed to maintain records for all 24 of California's bat species. The subset of data covered by this MOU includes all WMD database records for the counties of Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego. The WMD bat locality database is updated periodically as new data arrive. The WMD is not responsible for any inaccuracies in or incompleteness of the data. Data are entered into the database as submitted.
Corrections are welcome.
The WMD's database is not a comprehensive record of all known bat locality and roost records. Absence of occurrence data for the area in question does not indicate that bats are not present. The WMD is currently in the process of entering its backlog of statewide data. Entry of future data submissions and maintenance of the database will proceed based on data made available to WMD, and as staffing and funding allow. Although the NDDB tracks data only for the 10 bat species currently considered species of special concern, the NDDB data set may contain records for those species, especially museum records, not included in WMD's data.