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Dave A @batworker.bsky.social · 1d

Greater Noctule 🦇 research records hunting small birds more than 1km up in the air. www.izw-berlin.de/en/press-rel...

Caught in the act: Scientists record how Europe’s largest bat catches and consumes a passerine bird mid-air - Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research

After nearly 25 years of research, an international team of scientists has finally solved a mystery: The greater noctule, Europe’s largest bat, doesn’t just eat small birds – it hunts and captures the...

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Bat Research Team @bat-cesco.bsky.social · 4d

[NEW PAPER OUT]

🦇 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 !

A deep dive into optimal foraging theory and social foraging through this bat study: flight speed, tolerance to conspecifics, and adjustments in the presence of heterospecifics revealed via 3D tracking.

Foraging flight strategy varies with species identity of co-occurring individuals in bats

The presence of individuals from a different species induces a change in bat's flight strategy, that probably reflects an increase in competitiveness. Inde

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 8d

🦇 October Giveaway!! Any new members joining this month will be entered in a prize draw for the chance to win this Beaumaris bat box from CJ Wildlife! This would make an amazing Christmas gift or a treat for yourself.

Join today: www.bats.org.uk/membership/s...

A black bat box made of Woodstone with a bat carving at the front.

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Jaap van Schaik @jaapvschaik.bsky.social · 8d

Proud to present our latest 🦇 paper! Using 13 years of data, we show that hibernation timing has shifted dramatically in two bat species, but in opposite directions 😮

Huge congrats to Gabi, Frauke, and the whole team.

OA in @globalchangebio.bsky.social: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Highlights in 🧵

One Species Hibernates Shorter, the Other Longer: Rapid but Opposing Responses to Warming Climate in Two Sympatric Bat Species

Hibernation timing is a crucial seasonal transition that directly influences the survival and reproduction of hibernating mammals. Climate change alters key drivers of hibernation phenology, includin...

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Jack Hooker @jackhooker.bsky.social · 9d

New OA 🦇 research 📄

Sex-differences of survival and seasonal dispersal in a meta-population of greater horseshoe bats

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sex-differences of survival and seasonal dispersal in a meta-population of greater horseshoe bats - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Sex-differences of survival and seasonal dispersal in a meta-population of greater horseshoe bats

www.nature.com

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Dr. Sabine Metzger 🦇 @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social · 11d

🦇 open.substack.com/pub/batconse...

Bats at sea

Every now and again, our National Bat Helpline deals with peculiar cases. This one was too good not to share with you - keep reading!

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Dave A @batworker.bsky.social · 11d

We’re poster boys! New achievement unlocked 😂

Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 11d

🦇 #InternationalPodcastDay is actually today but we clearly couldn't wait to tell about BatChat and we jumped the gun!

New season coming on the 5 November!

Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 12d

🦇 If you want to learn more about bat conservation and get to know the amazing people behind it all, our BatChat podcast is for you!

🦇 Six seasons and one on the way
🦇 67 episodes
🦇 70 + guests
🦇 From Jersey through Perth, Norfolk through Northern Ireland

#InternationalPodcastDay

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Dave A @batworker.bsky.social · 13d

Highlight of this Slovenian trip so far has been listening to these mating Greater/Lesser Mouse Eared bats 🦇 (Bats 30+ metres above us, even a 200mm lens struggled). #bats #chiroptera

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Phil Atkin @ramoneskaraoke.bsky.social · 15d

There's now an Android option for iPhone-deprived people who want to go bat detecting with a Griff : play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Thank John Mears for this, not me. And don't contact me with Android problems, I have never in my life used an Android device, so I will be of zero help to you.

BatGizmo - Apps on Google Play

BatGizmo is an app for displaying spectrograms of bat calls.

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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 16d

Highly recommended to any grad students studying bats, I got one of these during my PhD and it was really helpful 🦇

Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · 16d

🦇 Grad Students: we'll be accepting applications for the 2026 Student Scholars program on October 1ˢᵗ. Learn more at batcon.org/student-scholars

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Phil Atkin @ramoneskaraoke.bsky.social · 18d

The revised user manual for Bat Detector - 2.4, the next release - has a new final page with a plea for decency from folks who enjoy using high-quaility, free software with zero profit motive. The app is free and has no nag screen, it tries to be as nice to you as possible, so please be nice back.

Final page of the Bat Detector user manual with a plea for positive reviews on the App Store

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Jack Hooker @jackhooker.bsky.social · 19d

New OA 🦇 research 📄

Current frontiers in the passive acoustic monitoring of bats

@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @bat-cesco.bsky.social

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Current frontiers in the passive acoustic monitoring of bats

Passive acoustic monitoring of bats is used in a growing number of studies in applied and basic research, from local to global scales. Despite the publication of good-practice recommendations, sev...

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 20d

🦇 At the National Bat Conference we shared the trailer for season 7 of our podcast, BatChat. And now we get to share it with you all!

Returning on the 5 November.

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Dave A @batworker.bsky.social · 21d

Lovely example of bat 🦇mitigation here in Slovenia. Living with bats doesn’t need to be difficult.

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Phil Atkin @ramoneskaraoke.bsky.social · 22d

TestFlight link for bugfix candidate of Bat Detector version 2.3 build 10 : testflight.apple.com/join/M5R8kipW

Join the Bat Detector beta

Available on iOS

testflight.apple.com

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BES Climate Change @besclimate.bsky.social · Jul 6

Read our latest blog post by @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social‬, whose research reveals how temperature and rainfall affect the body size of European bats. 🦇

Laura offers insights into their resilience, vulnerability, and what it means for conservation in a warming world. 🌍

bit.ly/3GsQunp

How is bat size affected by climate?

Author: Laura Paltrinieri, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid Global environmental change is one of the greatest challenges facing biodiversity. Rising temperatures, shifting rainfall patt…

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 22d

Help us speak up for bats www.justgiving.com/campaign/hel...

Help us speak up for bats

The legislation that protects bats is at risk, endangering all bat species including several that are at risk of extinction. We want to build a strong evidence-based policy foundation that reduces the...

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · Sep 10

🦇 More than echolocation: Bats use both sight and sound to hunt more efficiently in light: www.izw-berlin.de/en/press-rel...

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · Sep 10

Bats on the move: study reveals migration patterns behind wind turbine fatalities news.ufl.edu/2025/09/bat-...

Bats on the move: study reveals migration patterns behind wind turbine fatalities

A new study sheds light on why North America’s bats are dying in large numbers at wind energy facilities.

news.ufl.edu

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Dave A @batworker.bsky.social · Sep 8

That’s our Hoffman lime kiln study site! You can hear about it soon on the BCT 🦇 BatChat Podcast…

Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · Sep 8

At the National Bat Conference we shared the trailer for season 7 of our podcast, BatChat. And now we get to share it with you all!

Returning on the 5 November.

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · Sep 8

At the National Bat Conference we shared the trailer for season 7 of our podcast, BatChat. And now we get to share it with you all!

Returning on the 5 November.

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Dave A @batworker.bsky.social · Sep 5

Brandt’s bat 🦇 in deep torpor, covered in condensation wasn’t on the bingo card for today’s swarming site check.

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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · Sep 2

In her review, Laura Stidsholt @bioacousticsau.bsky.social discusses how bat-borne acoustic devices are changing echolocation research in wild #bats by recording sensory & foraging behaviour across different species, habitats & levels of disturbance

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

A screen shot of the PDF of the Review, Unlocking the mysteries of biosonar use and foraging behaviour in wild bats with on-board acoustic recording tags, but Laura Stidsholt. The publishing information states: © 2025. Published by The Company of Biologists | Journal of Experimental Biology (2025) 228, jeb250777. doi:10.1242/jeb.250777. The first sentence of the Abstract states: Since the discovery of biosonar by Griffin in the 1940s, laboratories have conducted detailed experiments on how bats produce and modify their biosonar calls, as well as on how they detect and process self-generated echoes when orienting and hunting in flight rooms

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Dave A @batworker.bsky.social · Aug 29

Discovering mummified bats 🦇 that are older than carbon dating can measure. Fantastic podcast to listen to #bats thesecretlivesofparks.org/episodes/ret...

Return to the Bat Cave | The Secret Lives of Parks

What is it like to be inside one of the wildest places on Earth? In a remote area of the Grand Canyon, explorers discovered two caves previously untouched by human beings, with thousands of ancient ba...

thesecretlivesofparks.org

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Dave A @batworker.bsky.social · Aug 16

Young of year male Brown Long Eared bat 🦇 resident in the swarming site.

Young of year male Brown Long Eared bat in a swarming site

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