Alabama Newscenter — These Alabama Power Employees Are Giving Bats and Birds a Better Home

By Dennis Washington

Bats and bluebirds in south Alabama will soon have a better home thanks to volunteers from Alabama Power.

More than 20 employees of Plant Barry in Mobile recently assembled 20 bluebird boxes and 10 bat boxes to be deployed in the Upper Delta Wildlife Management Area, a forested floodplain the Alabama, Mobile and Tensaw rivers run through. Eric Lynn, a senior engineer at the plant, says the habitat project was inspired by a conversation earlier this year between employees of Alabama Power and the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR).

“We started the relationship with them in 2019 when we built some duck boxes for them and installed them,” Lynn said. “We reached back out to them at the beginning of the year and this is a project that they proposed.”

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