CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Weeks of searching for a roost for the rare Florida bonneted bat around a Coral Gables golf course, with scores of volunteers training smart phones and iPads to the night sky to detect high-frequency calls, ended quietly early one morning last month when a lone dog walker heard a call coming from a nearby house.

Tucked in between barrel tiles of the rundown vacant house a block from the greens, the roost is the first documented in Southeast Florida, according to wildlife officials.

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