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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…
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…
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…
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…
Wind turbines and wind farms can cause problems for bats , and according to researchers the pressure differences that build up as the blades turn can implode the inner organs and lungs…
A boom in the use of small wind turbines could be halving bat numbers in areas where they are put up, new research has suggested. The Stirling University study recommended micro…
Bats have long been the victims of bad publicity. Misunderstood and misrepresented, they are widely feared, but these little mammals are useful allies in the garden: just one bat will…
