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The video below shows Soprano Pipistrelles Pipistrellus pygmaeus emerging from a maternity roost at dusk during one of our bat surveys during June 2017. Soprano pipistrelle maternity roosts can number…
The saying ‘as blind as a bat’ is factually incorrect: bats have good eyesight that is adapted for low light conditions. Now a new scientific study just published has also discredited the popular…
Bat bridges erected across many highways to reduce roadkill are not working, according to this article in the Independent. During an interview with this newspaper, John Altringham, Professor of Ecology and…
Our staff are currently undertaking a large number of bat surveys and last night we discovered a major soprano pipistrelle Pipistrellus pygmaeus maternity roost in the roof of a private…
Bat populations are generally understood to have undergone significant declines throughout Europe, particularly during the second half of the 20th century. The declines have been variously attributed to the intensification of agriculture, persecution, destruction…
There is increasing evidence that wind energy developments have the potential to have significant negative impacts on bat populations (Voigta et al, 2012). Both Bat Conservation Ireland (Bat Conservation Ireland, 2012) and the Bat Conservation…
Bats rule the night skies, using the power of echolocation, or reflected sound. More than 1,000 species of echolocating bats exist, compared to just 80 species of nocturnal non-echolocating birds.…
For years scientists have speculated that the unexpected number of bat fatalities around wind farms is the result of barotrauma-related injuries. Baerwald et al (2008) published a paper entitled ‘Barotrauma is…
