Agata Staniewicz

Gharial acoustic signaling: Novel underwater pops are temporally based, context‐dependent, seasonally stable, male‐specific, and individually distinctive Male gharials (Gavialis gangeticus) produce loud underwater POPs by rapid jaw clapping 1–3×. POPs are temporally based, context-dependent, seasonally stable, and individually distinctive. The bulbous...

There's still so much to discover about crocodilian acoustic communication. Great to see this new #bioacoustics paper on the novel underwater pops in the gharial: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

03.02.2025 15:36 — 👍 26    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Nature vs Growth? The false choice threatening our future - News - Bat Conservation Trust Should developers 'stop worrying about the bats and the newts'? They don't have to; pitting nature against development is dangerous, irresponsible and unnecessary.

🦇 Nature vs Growth? The false choice threatening our future: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/01... .

Should developers 'stop worrying about the bats and the newts'? They don't have to; pitting nature against development is dangerous, irresponsible and unnecessary.

31.01.2025 17:19 — 👍 59    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 2

Is the government’s planning reform bad for bats? - News - Bat Conservation Trust Planning reforms risk devastating impacts to bats, here's what we're doing about it and how you can help.

🦇 (1/2) In response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s speech today: we believe that blaming the laws that protect bats, newts and other wildlife, as well as our wider environment, for planning delays is short sighted and misguided.

29.01.2025 13:52 — 👍 203    🔁 76    💬 3    📌 9

Hope for our rarest UK bat - News - Bat Conservation Trust Two exciting discoveries have been reported in the last week about our rarest bat species, the greater mouse-eared bat.

Not one, but two new greater mouse-eared bat have been found www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/01...

27.01.2025 18:23 — 👍 132    🔁 25    💬 3    📌 3

🦇 This is absolutely terrific news!!

Since 2002, for 20 winters, one solo male greater mouse-eared bat was recorded hibernating in a tunnel near the south coast, by Sussex Bat Group. In early 2023 a second bat was recorded in the same tunnel. A record in a new county is amazing!!

24.01.2025 10:15 — 👍 41    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1

With subs This is "With subs" by Creative Digital Services on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Want to find out how we are using #AI to help us learn more about #bats?
Lia Gilmour and @agatastaniewicz.bsky.social from our Science team, and George Lambert from Lambert Labs explain how BCT’s Sound Classification System is revolutionising bat #research and monitoring: vimeo.com/1029328047/0...

07.01.2025 09:58 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2

Bats and Large-Scale Housing Maintenance Projects Guidance for England - Guidance for professionals - Bat Conservation Trust Bats and Large-Scale Housing Maintenance Projects Guidance for England, published December 2024

@batconservation.bsky.social are happy to announce the publication of Bats and Large-Scale Housing Maintenance Projects Guidance.

This 📄 provides guidance for large-scale housing projects where the principal focus is retention and repair rather than demolition.

❤️🦇

www.bats.org.uk/resources/gu...

18.12.2024 10:00 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Working to Protect Vital Habitat in Kenya In coastal Kenya, rapid development is threatening to destroy some of the most important cave roosts for bats, including the Endangered Hildegarde’s tomb bat…

It’s out! Here’s a short video highlighting some of the incredible work we’ve involved with in #Kenya saving endangered bats and empowering local communities 🦇

vimeo.com/1039734764

18.12.2024 01:22 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

Anthropomorphized samurai bats from an old Japanese print

🦇 I love old pictures of bats and I think I just found my favourite piece of #BatsInArt [Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)]:

12.12.2024 12:15 — 👍 612    🔁 190    💬 12    📌 15

@batconservation.bsky.social BigGive Christmas Challenge campaign 'A lifeline for bats' is now live!

From 3-10 December every donation up to £5,000 made on this page will be DOUBLED: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... .

This means we can raise a minimum of £10,000 for the National Bat Helpline 🦇

03.12.2024 12:40 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

Natural soundscapes enhance mood recovery amid anthropogenic noise pollution In urbanised landscapes, the scarcity of green spaces and increased exposure to anthropogenic noise have adverse effects on health and wellbeing. While reduced speed limits have historically been impl...

Really nice new #ecoacoustics paper by my BCT colleague Lia Gilmour about the negative impact of anthropogenic noise and positive impact of natural soundscapes on wellbeing journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

02.12.2024 12:55 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Acoustic indices enable the discrimination of temperate forest types and better predict differences in bird species composition than in bird species richness Acoustic indices have been proposed as a tool to estimate animal biodiversity and abundance, as well as habitat types and vegetation structure. Howeve…

Kicking off my Bluesky account with a little plug for our new #bioacoustics paper, showing acoustic indices enable us to disciminate between temperate forest types (and bird species composition): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🎤🌲🌳🐦🕊️

28.11.2024 14:33 — 👍 29    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0