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London Bat Group 🦇

@LondonBatGroup

We are a small voluntary group working throughout the Greater London area to protect & enhance it’s bat populations 🦇 Bat in trouble? Helpline: 0345 1300 228

 London
londonbats.org.uk
Joined November 2011
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Sunday out with @LondonBatGroup counting hibernating bats in unused railway tunnels in Highgate 🔦. Recorded Daubenton’s bats, natterers bats, brown long eared bats and common pipistrelles 🤩 #batmonitoring
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Michelle Parsons@Mich_Parsons4 Jan 2024
Nominations for the VBRV Training for Trainers course are now OPEN until 15 January 2024! If you are a level 1 VBRV and want to become a trainer, please speak to your trainer/bat group 💪 All the details are here: shorturl.at/nDTW7 🦇🏠⛪️ – at England, United Kingdom
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Bat Conservation Trust@_BCT_13 Dec 2023
Anyone else have bat themed #Christmas decorations? Do please share photos of them with us. These are a small sample of the ones in our office
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NI Bat Group@GroupBat31 Oct 2023
HAPPY HALLOWEEN from us & the bats 🦇 #LoveBats #samhain #Halloween
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London Zoo@zsllondonzoo25 Oct 2023
Don’t miss our #Halloween fun: ow.ly/TTTg50Q0x3Q And be sure to visit Rainforest Life, home to amazing animals including ‘flying foxes’! 🦇 Every Zoo visit helps fund our conservation work to protect species under threat around the world. #BatWeek #BooAtTheZoo
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A #batpoem for your enjoyment, by Anna Ferguson Montague Happy Baturday.
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Fiona Mathews@MathewsFiona16 Oct 2023
I bring you the velvety fruit-eating bat from Ecuador. The name says it all really! This gorgeous guy is a key fruit eater and seed disperser, critical to rainforest regeneration. #bats #Conservation
Bat Conservation Trust (@_BCT_) profile pictureBat Conservation Trust@_BCT_14 Oct 2023
Bats play an important role in many habitats around the world. Some tropical plants depend partly or wholly on certain bat species to pollinate their flowers or spread their seeds, while many bats, including all British species, help control insects by feeding on them.
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Bat Conservation Trust@_BCT_1 Oct 2023
October is here! More mating is taking place, and building up fat reserves is becoming crucial to survive the winter season. Bats are seeking suitable hibernation sites, and beginning periods of torpor.
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Bat Conservation Trust@_BCT_26 Sep 2023
Join us this Sunday at 5pm when we will be kicking off #BatFest with artist @MaisyInston teaching us how to draw a bat and sharing some interesting bat facts in our Sketch-a-bat session. Free event - everyone is welcome Book here: bats.org.uk/events/batfest-s… #lovebats
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GoodGym@goodgym19 Sep 2023
Last night, @GGRichmon ran, walked and cycled along the @RiverThames with @LondonBatGroup to survey the bat population. Using special monitors, they counted several 100 bats with all the data recorded for a scientific study with the @_BCT_ 🦇 #GoGoodGetFIt @RaleighBikes_UK
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Bat Conservation Trust@_BCT_19 Aug 2023
There are over 1,400 species of bats in the world, making up 1/5 of all mammal species and 1/4 of British mammals. Four of the UK’s 17 breeding bat species are red listed as being at risk of extinction. Learn more about UK bat species: buff.ly/3ubI3Cz
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Dr Kim Wallis@KimRWallis30 Jun 2023
So cute! Developing well but I clearly didn’t wipe their faces enough after breakfast 🤣 #bats #batcare #pups
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Bat Conservation Trust@_BCT_24 Jun 2023
Would you know what to do if you found a bat in the ground or exposed area during the day? 1. Safely contain the bat in a box following our guidance: buff.ly/34PPUgq 2. Call the National Bat Helpline, a regional helpline or follow more advice: buff.ly/3PhKb4V
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Bat Conservation Trust@_BCT_21 Jun 2023
Cat attacks are one of the most common causes of bat casualties. There are a few simple things you can do to help protect bats bats.org.uk/about-bats/threa…
Cat attacks - Threats to bats - Bat Conservation Trust

Cat attacks - Threats to bats - Bat Conservation Trust

Cat attacks are one of the most common causes of bat casualties, as reported by bat rehabilitators. If a bat has been caught by a cat it will very likel...

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Bat Conservation Trust@_BCT_14 Jun 2023
Would you know what to do if you found a bat in the ground or exposed area during the day? 1. Safely contain the bat in a box following our guidance: buff.ly/34PPUgq 2. Call the National Bat Helpline, a regional helpline or follow more advice: buff.ly/3PhKb4V
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Bat Conservation Trust@_BCT_14 Jun 2023
Every year the National Bat Helpline answers thousands of calls that helps people and saves bats. It is only possible thanks to the amazing helpline team made up of staff and volunteers. Here is one rescue story. Please donate what you can if you can bats.org.uk/news/2020/07/hel…
Helpline heroes rescue 63 baby bats struck by heat wave - News - Bat Conservation Trust

Helpline heroes rescue 63 baby bats struck by heat wave - News - Bat Conservation Trust

Bat rescuers have been called out to an unusual case of 63 baby bats found in daylight and struggling in the heat wave this week.

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Dr Kim Wallis@KimRWallis13 Jun 2023
He likes to be snug! 24hrs in so 🤞🏻#pupseason #bats #wildliferescue
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I forgot to update that she crossed the channel!! One of the Nathusius pip bats we tagged in London (Apr 16) was detected in the Netherlands (May 5) and Germany (May 6). Impressive journey for a 7g bat 🤩 #MOTUS #batmigration
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Cecilia Montauban 🦇🐾 (@CmMontauban) profile pictureCecilia Montauban 🦇🐾@CmMontauban5 May 2023
They are on the move!!! Update from Bedfont project lead Patty Briggs: "Two of our tagged London bats are now on the move. One is now at Dungeness and the other has gone up to Lowestoft." Will they cross the channel? 🤩 #batmigration #MOTUS
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Bat Conservation Trust@_BCT_2 Jun 2023
Great to see @LondonBatGroup at @battersea_zoo today. If you visit tomorrow (Saturday 3 June), make sure to drop by. ❤️🦇
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Bat Conservation Trust@_BCT_1 Jun 2023
It is June! Female bats usually give birth to a single pup, which they feed on their milk. Pups have little to no fur and are very small (less than an inch); juvenile bats have velvet-like fur. Adult bats will catch thousands of insects each in a night!
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