Dave A
@batworker.bsky.social
Bat ecologist working in the North of England. Ex Museum Curator. Researching use of caves, mines and lime kilns by bats in the Forest of Bowland and Yorkshire Dales National Park.
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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...
Bat Box Occupancy Preliminary Results - www.flightecology.co.uk/bat-box-occu...
Bat Box Occupancy Survey
Study into the use of bat boxes by colonies of microbats. Which boxes do bats prefer?
www.flightecology.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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...
Bat Box Occupancy Preliminary Results - www.flightecology.co.uk/bat-box-occu...
Love bats 🦇 Nietoperek census 2026 is a mind blowing experience. So honoured to have the chance to take part in the weekend.
January 11, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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…
January 6, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Finally cold enough for the Brown Long Eared bats to enter the hibernation site. If it warms up they’ll likely leave again…
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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!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We recorded male Myotis myotis in mating roosts and found complex vocalizations with an individual signature and pronounced seasonal variation. Check it out!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 5, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We recorded male Myotis myotis in mating roosts and found complex vocalizations with an individual signature and pronounced seasonal variation. Check it out!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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…
December 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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…
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Third chapter of my thesis finally out ‼🦇
"Prioritizing bat roosts for conservation with a global multicriteria bat roost priority index based on community science"
"Prioritizing bat roosts for conservation with a global multicriteria bat roost priority index based on community science"
December 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Third chapter of my thesis finally out ‼🦇
"Prioritizing bat roosts for conservation with a global multicriteria bat roost priority index based on community science"
"Prioritizing bat roosts for conservation with a global multicriteria bat roost priority index based on community science"
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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 !🌱🙏
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
December 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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 !🌱🙏
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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🦇🧪🌎Question the Mark: A Review and Assessment of Bat Marking Practices - Loeb - 2026 - Mammal Review - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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 ...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
🦇🧪🌎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…
December 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Time off means time to test out extending the runtime on a PippyG detector…
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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
December 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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🦇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
December 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🦇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 🦇
December 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Still miss getting post like this 🦇
When your 🦇 bat research partner delivers an early Christmas present…
December 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
When your 🦇 bat research partner delivers an early Christmas present…
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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
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
The Hoffman Kiln: Where Bats Reclaim the Dales
Podcast Episode · BatChat · 03/12/2025 · 45m
podcasts.apple.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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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
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
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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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z_v...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z_v...
Bats in translation, Mirjam Knörnschild
YouTube video by Interspecies Internet
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December 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z_v...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z_v...
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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
#bioacoustics @naturalengland.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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
#bioacoustics @naturalengland.bsky.social
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My talk was about potential overlap of research with dietary metabarcoding of Lesser Horseshoe Bats and entomological research!
If anyone is interested in chatting, please reach out
If anyone is interested in chatting, please reach out
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My talk was about potential overlap of research with dietary metabarcoding of Lesser Horseshoe Bats and entomological research!
If anyone is interested in chatting, please reach out
If anyone is interested in chatting, please reach out
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🦇I case you missed it - a new episode of our podcast, BatChat, is available - The Hoffman Kiln: Where Bats Reclaim the Dales.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
December 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🦇I case you missed it - a new episode of our podcast, BatChat, is available - The Hoffman Kiln: Where Bats Reclaim the Dales.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
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🦇A new episode of our podcast, BatChat, is out now - The Hoffman Kiln: Where Bats Reclaim the Dales.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
December 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🦇A new episode of our podcast, BatChat, is out now - The Hoffman Kiln: Where Bats Reclaim the Dales.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
Bats, lime kilns, caves, mines, hibernation, autumn swarming and #fieldworkfriday 🦇 in the Yorkshire Dales.
Didn’t realise I’d mentioned your name quite so many times @johnaltringham.bsky.social
Didn’t realise I’d mentioned your name quite so many times @johnaltringham.bsky.social
🦇A new episode of our podcast, BatChat, is out now - The Hoffman Kiln: Where Bats Reclaim the Dales.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
North of Settle in the Yorkshire Dales lies the Hoffman Kiln, a relic of the industrial revolution. It's now an important site for bats of the Dales all year round.
December 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Bats, lime kilns, caves, mines, hibernation, autumn swarming and #fieldworkfriday 🦇 in the Yorkshire Dales.
Didn’t realise I’d mentioned your name quite so many times @johnaltringham.bsky.social
Didn’t realise I’d mentioned your name quite so many times @johnaltringham.bsky.social
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Our new paper in PNAS, led by Megan Power: a large-scale study of telomere shortening in relation to reproductive costs in bats. Photo of one of the greater horseshoe bats we studied at Woodchester mansion by Hetty Metcalfe.
December 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Our new paper in PNAS, led by Megan Power: a large-scale study of telomere shortening in relation to reproductive costs in bats. Photo of one of the greater horseshoe bats we studied at Woodchester mansion by Hetty Metcalfe.
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🦇 Bat box scheme in old quarry phenomenally successful for pipistrelle sp. and has also attracted occasional long-eared bats. But yesterday we all did happy dances when we found a Noctule bat in a "small hollow" box, 4.5m up beech tree, good flight lines. #lovebats #greenwoodsecohabitats
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🦇 Bat box scheme in old quarry phenomenally successful for pipistrelle sp. and has also attracted occasional long-eared bats. But yesterday we all did happy dances when we found a Noctule bat in a "small hollow" box, 4.5m up beech tree, good flight lines. #lovebats #greenwoodsecohabitats
Fancy having a leadmine in your back garden. Glad we’ve been allowed access to monitor the bats 🦇 hibernating in it…
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Fancy having a leadmine in your back garden. Glad we’ve been allowed access to monitor the bats 🦇 hibernating in it…