German researchers have tracked the migration route of a bat from where it was spending the summer near Berlin to its winter quarters in Italy using a mini transmitter, the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research reported on Tuesday. The bat, a lesser noctule, also known as an Irish bat, took five days to fly via Munich, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Lake Comer, Milan and Parma. The use of the transmitter updates earlier data based on finding ringed specimens. Whereas the bats were found previously in general only at their destinations in France and Italy, the transmitter allowed tracking vi…