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What bats do you have and

how can you help them

• About British bats

• What bats you have – including rarities

• Projects of interest • What we can all do for all bats

UK bat species

Horseshoe family

  • Horseshoes
  • Greater horseshoe

British bats

Lesser horseshoe

  • Myotis bats
  • Alcathoe bat

Bechstein’s bat Brandt’s bat Daubenton’s bat Natterer’s bat

Whiskered

  • Big bats
  • Noctule

Vesper family

- evening bats

or common bat

Leisler’s bat

Serotine

  • Pipistrelles
  • Common pipistrelle

(Pipistrellus)

Soprano pipistrelle

Nathusius’ pipistrelle

  • Brown long-eared bat
  • Long-eareds

(Plecotus)

© Ash Murray
© Ash Murray

Grey long-eared bat Barbastelle

17 species of bats

breed in the UK

Unique in their power of flight

Where bats live

 Bats use different roosts at different times of the year

 Bats often roost in buildings and other built structures

 Some bats only roost in trees  Some bats will also roost in

bat boxes

Bat habitats: roosts

Where bats feed

 Bats need good foraging habitat near to where they roost

 Good foraging habitats are those that support insects (and

a range of other biodiversity)
 Bats will feed over water, woodland, marshy areas, hedgerows, grazed and semi-improved grassland

 Connectivity and unlit green infrastructure is important

Bat habitats: foraging

• Suitable feeding areas close to roost sites

• Good variety and

number of insects

• Sheltered areas where insects can be caught more easily

Bat habitats: linkages

• Linear features such as hedgerows and

other flight-line features
• Vital for bats to navigate from roost to feeding area

How do they hunt in the dark?

 Bats hunt insects in flight in the dark using sound

 Bats calls are above our hearing range, bat detectors to

listen to their calls

 Pipistrelle can eat over 3,000 midges in one night  Noctules eat larger insects such as beetles and cockchafers

Eavesdropping on bats

Devon’s bats

© Hugh Clark

The grey long-eared bat – what

are we doing in Devon

Grey long-eared bats roost

locations

  • Working with local communities
  • Bats in Churches

HLF development stage approval

The project will:

• trial and perfect new techniques to enable bats and church congregations to live together

• build up professional expertise and volunteer

skill to share the best solutions with more churches and other historic buildings
• bring together church communities, bat enthusiasts and local communities to create a shared understanding and appreciation of churches and bats

• run a new national survey to find out how bats use churches across England and create a database to share information with all key stakeholders

Count Bat

What we can all do for bats

Go out and listen!

• Go out at dusk and listen for bats on a detector

• Watch bats emerge from a known roost • Look out for other signs of bats

Bats you might see in Devon

Daubenton’s

bat
Brown longeared bat
Pipistrelles
Noctule

  • Largest bat
  • Medium bat

  • Smallest bat
  • Medium bat

  • Wingspan 32-45cm
  • Wingspan 23-27cm

  • Wingspan 18-24cm
  • Wingspan 24-28cm

  • Emerges at sunset
  • Emerges 30-60mins

after sunset
Emerges 15-20mins after sunset
Emerges after dark Slow fluttering flight
Long thin wings, flies Flies low over water straight, high and fast
Fast turning flight has large hairy feet

Rarer bats you might see around

here

• Greater and lesser horseshoe bats

National Bat Monitoring
Programme since 1996

How do we monitor bats?

• Counts at roosts

• Activity surveys using bat detectors

Summer Roost Counts

Winter Hibernation Survey
Field Survey
Waterway Survey

NBMP

Bat boxes

• Put up a bat box

. important because bats losing natural roosts

• Lots of different designs • Place as high as convenient and in direct sunlight for part of the day

• Three boxes can be put up on one

tree – N, SE, SW
• Readily available to buy or can make your own!

Gardening for bats

• Plants attract insects; insects attract bats! • Choose the right plants e.g. night-scented, pale

• Wet area or pond

• Avoid chemicals

Bat Care

Devon Bat Group & BCT

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