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Greater Mouse Eared bats cluster hibernating.

Valentine’s Day is the perfect time for a repost of my favourite cluster of hibernating Greater Mouse Eared bats. #LoveBats

Five minute walk from the hotel. Fairly sure I’ve recorded Large Footed Myotis, Asian House bat, Pouched Tomb bat, plus a few more 🦇 so far. Need to get some laptop time for some serious ID work.

Asian Openbill Stork

Greater Racket Tailed Drongo

Malayan Water Monitor

A fruitless search for Bamboo bats, but the bird life and reptiles made up for it.

Crash course in echolocation ID of South East Asia bats 🦇 First night in Singapore went well. Today is all about tracking down some Bamboo bats.

Low water levels this winter underground.

A group of hibernating Brandt’s bats

Last winter 🦇 check for a while. Good numbers of hibernating Brandt’s bats recorded above the 500m contour.

Someone we know with a 3D printer did them for us

3D printed cases for the PippyG bat detector covered in Realtree camo gaffa tape.

PippyG 🦇 3D printed cases ready for some field testing.

The frogs have decided spring is coming…

Preparing slides for next months talk to Northumberland 🦇 Group based on last year's recordings curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/w...

added in a few sounds from the woods

common pipistrelle with feeding buzz 🦇

🦇 New episode of our #BatChat #podcast is out now: Restoring the Past - The Andrew Watson Holgate Detector.

Steve Page from the Hampshire Bat Group is the custodian of Andrew Watson's Holgate Bat Detector, one of the first commercially available bat detectors which was developed in the 1960s.

Great work from Rich Flight drawing together what we know about bat box occupancy check it out on his website.

Bat Box Occupancy Preliminary Results - www.flightecology.co.uk/bat-box-occu...

Hibernating Greater Mouse Eared bats in Nietoperek tunnel system.

Love bats 🦇 Nietoperek census 2026 is a mind blowing experience. So honoured to have the chance to take part in the weekend.

Finally cold enough for the Brown Long Eared bats to enter the hibernation site. If it warms up they’ll likely leave again…

New study alert! Sexually selected vocalizations of Greater Mouse-Eared Bats

We recorded male Myotis myotis in mating roosts and found complex vocalizations with an individual signature and pronounced seasonal variation. Check it out!

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They’re roosting in roof vents in a lime kiln

First #FieldworkFriday of 2026 🦇

Young of year Daubenton’s bats in a swarming site.

Young of year Natterer’s bats in a swarming site.

On the eve of a new year of research into how bats 🦇 use swarming sites. We’ve got the promise of funding to open up new avenues of investigation; always more questions that need answering…

Third chapter of my thesis finally out ‼🦇

"Prioritizing bat roosts for conservation with a global multicriteria bat roost priority index based on community science"

So grateful to all co-authors, but especially to @tkrizler.bsky.social whose work was the main inspiration for this index, and whose invaluable contribution greatly improved the manuscript! And also, to all the volunteers from www.batmonitoring.org !🌱🙏
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Question the Mark: A Review and Assessment of Bat Marking Practices We reviewed a decade of research on bats and conducted a broader systematic review to assess the nature of bat marking practices and the effects and efficacy of marks. Effects of marks on bats, mark ...

🦇🧪🌎Question the Mark: A Review and Assessment of Bat Marking Practices - Loeb - 2026 - Mammal Review - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Time off means time to test out extending the runtime on a PippyG detector…

30 volunteers covered 199 bat calls over 5,000 square kilometres of Northern England in 2025. I love them all, they respond with enthusiasm and good humour to enable bats to be given a second chance. Merry Christmas and may all bats stay safely tucked up for the New Year. #lovebats #batcare

🦇There are many different ways to help bats. Either by becoming a member, donating, volunteering, raising funds at no extra cost to you, leaving a gift in your will or simply making your garden/green corner more bat friendly. Find out more here: www.bats.org.uk/support-bats

Still miss getting post like this 🦇

When your 🦇 bat research partner delivers an early Christmas present…

Thanks!

The Hoffman Kiln: Where Bats Reclaim the Dales Podcast Episode · BatChat · 03/12/2025 · 45m

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Batchat 🦇 is a must listen But if you only have a vague interest in 🦇 but are interested in testing science theories start with this one

YouTube video by Interspecies Internet Bats in translation, Mirjam Knörnschild

For those of you who have been led to believe that your heterodyne detector's bangs, cracks, slaps and warbles are representative of bat vocalisation - sorry (not sorry) to disappoint. Bats sing. They don't beatbox. Very different things.

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Habitat suitability is correlated with acoustic activity of bats - Landscape Ecology Context Habitat suitability models (HSMs) are a powerful tool for estimating species occurrence and contribute to evidence-based conservation planning. It is important to verify HSM predictions with g...

Habitat suitability is correlated with acoustic activity of bats 🦇

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A Bush-cricket on the leaf of a plant.

BTO's Acoustics Pipeline has identified Bush-crickets in ‘bat’ data collected for the Landscape-scale Species Monitoring of Agri-environment Schemes Project & assessed the effects of agri-environment management on these species➡️ www.bto.org/Bush-cricket...

#bioacoustics @naturalengland.bsky.social