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Posted on June 21, 2017

Soprano Pipistrelles emerging from a maternity roost

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…

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Posted on March 21, 2015March 21, 2015

Impact of artificial lighting on bats

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…

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Posted on March 16, 2015March 24, 2015

No evidence that bat bridges work

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…

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Posted on June 13, 2014June 13, 2014

Monitoring a Soprano pipistrelle maternity roost

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…

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Posted on January 30, 2014January 23, 2020

New report on European bat population trends

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…

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Posted on January 25, 2014March 21, 2014

Could bats be an issue for offshore wind farms?

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…

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Posted on December 25, 2013January 26, 2014

Bats use vision to see and echolocation to hunt

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.…

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Posted on November 25, 2013January 26, 2014

Wind turbines unlikely to cause fatal barotrauma in bats

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…

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