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 […]
