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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 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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Posted on April 18, 2013

Yorkshire bat colonies ‘cohabit all year’

Colonies of Daubenton’s bats in the Yorkshire Dales that have males and females living alongside each other all year round have surprised scientists. Normally, the bats display “segregation behaviour”, meaning the…

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Posted on April 18, 2013

Bats Build Mental Maps Of Their Surroundings And Remember Them For Future Flights

Many species of bats use echolocation to orient themselves and to hunt their insect prey, but they also rely on a pretty detailed memory to find their way around, a…

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Posted on April 18, 2013April 18, 2013

New Ecological Surveys and Mitigation calendar published

ECOFACT are Ireland’s leading independent ecological and environmental consultancy. They have just published a new calendar to provide guidance for undertaking ecological surveys and mitigation works. The calendar provides for…

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