FLIR Scout Pro
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This is the camera we reach for first. The 640×480 sensor gives you roughly four times the pixels of an entry-level thermal, so bats stay resolvable at longer working distances and stay separable from one another in dense emergences — which is exactly where lower-resolution cameras start merging bats into blobs and under-counting. The 32×24° field of view is wide enough to frame a whole cave mouth, building face, or bat box from a practical standoff distance without having to back so far off that the bats shrink into noise.
It is also built to survive a field season: a sealed, weather-resistant housing, real physical controls you can run in the dark with gloves on, and internal batteries that carry a full emergence without a tether. That durability matters more than spec sheets suggest — this is a camera that goes to caves, bridges, and treelines in the rain and keeps working.
Stand-alone or with the Recorder. The Scout Pro records on its own to internal storage, so you can carry it to a roost with nothing else in your hands, and it's also fully supported by ThruTracker Recorder on Windows — which gives you live brightness and contrast control and a clean, drop-free recording pipeline optimized for tracking. Use whichever fits the night; both produce video ThruTracker counts well.
