12 Bat Species Found in the UK (Bats You Might See in your Garden) | UK Wildlife Species

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Video Contents:
0:00 - Intro
1:03 - Brandt's Bat
1:31 - Whiskered Bat
1:55 - Alcathoe Bat
2:28 - Pond Bat
2:52 - Barbastelle Bat
3:15 - Noctule
3:45 - Leisler's Bat
4:24 - Common Pipistrelle
5:04 - Soprano Pipistrelle
5:36 - Nathusius' Pipistrelle
6:08 - Kuhl's Pipistrelle
6:33 - Savi's Pipistrelle
6:45 - Outro

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[@bramblesandnugget1420]

Ok

[@celtickshatriya4306]

Two live behind my house,see them most nights,one flew into the window pane as i watched him.

[@TheN0odles]

Informative video. You've got a good presenter's voice.

[@FeraForus]

Thank you! I'm glad you found it informative :D

[@corablunt-zy2be]

we had Bats living in my old boarding school pretty cool

[@FeraForus]

I love watching bats flying in and out of old buildings

[@markharris4539]

Just started to get into bats. Bought a couple of books, which, I'm reading at the mo, and also, a heterodyne detector....just waiting for spring now! Nice vid 👍

[@SA77888]

Nice to see some real enthusiasm and interest. Thanks for the upload.

[@FeraForus]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@stephenwoodfield3000]

I am constantly surprised that people don’t realise how important bats are to the worlds eco system and they are not pests.

[@FeraForus]

I've spoken to a surprising amount of people who don't even realise we have bats in the UK, let alone how important they are!

[@albertday6952]

Pipistrelles visit my garden summer evenings and I have seen a large high flying bat also , there are many woods ,trees plenty of lakes and a few old tunnels. I have a batscanner stereo which is very sensitive ... if I use it near the woods the sound of some night insects is deafening ...Alb in St Helens Merseyside

[@FeraForus]

Lovely to hear about your pipistrelles, and I imagine your large high flying bat was a noctule (one of my favourite species). I can imagine the sound of the insects you pick up. Some nights or early mornings when I do bat surveys an insect will fly past and the bat detector picks it up so loudly that it drowns everything else out!

[@JohnQuinnJQ]

Thank you Emily. I have just brought myself and grandkids a Magenta Bat 5 and you have gave us loads of important information.

[@FeraForus]

That's great, I'm glad I could help! When I first started out I used a Magenta detector, they're great fun :D

[@stephens4887]

I see the noctuals in the woods at back of our house they're fantastic to watch

[@FeraForus]

They're amazing aren't they, I love how unique their flight pattern is!

[@muwizar]

Perfect! Thank you for the guide!

[@FeraForus]

You're welcome, I hope it helps you in your future bat spotting!

[@nickvanderhorst1055]

The hoary bat from america was also rare the uk 😁

[@thekarmafarmer608]

Hi, thanks for this well put together video. Your enthusiasm is infectious. I am hoping to start my bat surveying training soon, which will accompany my tree surveying. I am fascinated by the Leisler`s bat, and the fact that it is so mobile. What ecological advantages it allows for itself by doing that! Anyway, all the best, thanks for sharing this video

[@FeraForus]

Thank you for the lovely comment! Bat surveying is great fun. I actually saw a Leisler's bat flying for the first time on a bat survey a couple of months ago and it made my day. I'd love to hear more in the future about how your bat surveying training goes!

[@thekarmafarmer608]

@@FeraForus Hey, great to hear from you. Yes, I am going back into utility arboricultural surveying, after a hiatus, and want to stretch to include bat surveys in my business. I`m fascinated by them and decided that there`s no reason I can`t include this in my programme. I will certainly let you know how it goes. I joined the BCT recently, and they offer excellent training. Really nice to hear back from you. Regards

[@florforcity953]

Hi from Brazil 😊

[@FeraForus]

Hello :D Glad to have you here!

[@crminstrel]

Wonderful, thank you. I’m in north east Scotland and happened to film a very large bat in my garden in slow mo recently. I posted it for our towns locals to see and a bat group contacted me. I have had a recording equipment in my garden for a week and look forward to hearing the results. This bat was extremely large, but apparently we do not have noctules bats here. Thanks for your video , I look forward to the next. Claire.

[@FeraForus]

That sounds really interesting, it's great that a bat group contacted you so they could find out the species ID. I wonder if it's a noctule or leisler's that flew off course, they have been known to sometimes fly very far from where they prefer to roost. I'd love to hear back when you get the results!

[@crminstrel]

@@FeraForus yes , possible leislers I think but I’ll let you know ! X

[@Aliceboy2k9]

Need to know what you had!! Was it a greater horseshoe?

[@Aliceboy2k9]

Forgot about the horseshoes, the greater horseshoe is the largest resident bat in the UK.. great video though!! Glad to see positive educational videos on bats!

[@FeraForus]

I'm glad you liked the video! This is actually part one of two bat videos. Both the horseshoe bats (and ten other species) are talked about in part two which you can also find on my channel :)

[@karlkuttup]

got a handfull of bats close to me and dont fit most of the ones here live near oak trees and water allso pine trees fly low fast and are big bats grey and brown ,had one land on my garden bird feeder ,wing span around a blackbird, allso land on the oak trees alot here in west midlands near cannock chase ,folks round here call them seratin bats

[@FeraForus]

That's exciting that you have serotines near you! If you check out part two to this video (which is linked in the video description) I cover 12 more UK bats, including that one.

[@thewildlifephotographer297]

Awesome💯🎉👍🇬🇧

[@FeraForus]

Glad you liked it!

[@JamesWelsh]

Loved this video. We get bats in our garden every year. We thought they weren’t back this year as they made an appearance a little later. I have a question. Do the mother bats stay silent in their roosts? We’ve heard nothing for weeks and all of a sudden tonight they’ve been chirping and flying out of the roost 🧐

[@FeraForus]

Glad you enjoyed it! What's the weather been like where you are? Maternal roosts are larger than other times of year, so I'd be surprised if they were quieter, but colder weather can cause less activity. It could also be that the baby bats have grown enough to start making flights out with their mothers, so you feel like there's suddenly more about because there are

[@JamesWelsh]

@@FeraForus it’s been boiling hot! Well UK hear weather hot haha. But just cooling down the last few days. Yeah that’s what I was thinking. We always take the dogs out to go toilet before we put them to bed. The same time every night at 9pm. But we never hear them! Then last night they were just so loud and flying around!

[@JohnzzzView]

Wonderful Video Emily. Really enjoyed your animations and descriptions. Are those clay models that you made yourself? They are excellent. I am lucky enough to have some bats at the top our our garden over the Summer. They are a sight to see.

[@FeraForus]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed watching! Yes, I did make the clay models myself. It took a while to finish them all. Nice to hear that you enjoy watching bats over your garden, I love to sit and watch them swooping around.

[@JohnzzzView]

@@FeraForus Well done on the clay models. They look like a good learning guide as you see the body shapes really well. Very interesting video. Thanks for making!

[@wayneparkinson4558]

What's the largest bat in the uk i bet it was not as big as the one i saw in north wales on a estuary it was at least as big has a large seagull and seemed to be very interested in my fish i had caught though it was dark there was a full moon and i had torch light and a colman lamp it circled for minutes and would not go away it looked in my direction while toward the large fish at my feet so i got a very good look at it looked like a flying fox with a snub nose grey with a rough on it's neck the tell tail signs of web wings was clearly seen it was no seabird for sure

[@FeraForus]

The technical answer to that question is the greater mouse eared bat, but since there's only one individual left I would actually say that the noctule bat is the largest UK bat. They're really obvious and are usually mistaken for birds by people not used to looking for bats because they fly straight lines very high in the sky and can be out while it's still fairly light outside. What you're describing doesn't sound like a bat. Bats tend to do swooping, wavy loops or follow linear features, rather than circle. Bats in the UK are all also insectivores so wouldn't have any interest in a fish. Based on what you've described it sounds like you saw an owl. There are five owl species found in Wales and any one of them under the right lighting conditions (such as with torch light and a full moon) can look grey and appear to have translucence in their wings. The species are barn owl, long eared owl, short eared owl, little owl, and tawny owl. Tawny owls are known to take fish, so possibly one of those, but impossible for me to tell since I didn't personally see it.

[@Vocalzone_covers]

Very interesting.. What about daubenton's?

[@FeraForus]

Definitely a species we have here and one that's covered in part 2 of this video, linked in the video description 😀

[@Vocalzone_covers]

Awesome. I missed that... I have just bought a detector as we have loads of bats in the Sudbury area called the meadows. We think they are pipistrelles but they are hunting insects above the water.. Fascinating.

[@sambrittain7254]

This is a bit weird but... In my house (South Devon), I was just sleeping, for me now that was half an hour ago at half past 2 in the morning, and I woke up and felt, what I thought was, my sheets on my face. Then my sheets moved and I was like hell no and chucked it the air. it was flying around like crazy and I eventually got it out!!!!!! Are there any parisites or something else (besides viruses) that could have been on it?

[@FeraForus]

If you woke up with a bat on your face I would really suggest calling the Bat Conservation Trust's helpline (the number is 0345 1300 228). They are experts in bats specifically and will be able to give you proper advice on parasites and diseases. I am recommending you call them because a small number of bats in the UK can pass on rabies if they bite or scratch you, and often bat bites and scratches are too small to realise you have them. Only one person in the UK is known to have caught and died from rabies from a bat, and they were working with bats at the time, but it's definitely better to be on the cautious side and talk with the Bat Conservation Trust helpline or your GP! Given how unusual it is for bats to enter houses, and the time of year, I suspect this was a baby bat that has newly started to explore it's surroundings and got a bit confused about where it was going. Well done getting it out the window, I imagine it was quite a shock to wake up to!

[@thestalicho]

Where can I get some of those "rubber" bat models, please

[@FeraForus]

Thanks for the interest! Unfortunately I actually made these myself out of air drying modelling clay, based on bat species dimensions and photographs, so they aren't actually for sale anywhere. I've been considering either putting them or casts of them for sale on my etsy shop but haven't got around to working out the logistics of that yet!

[@thestalicho]

@@FeraForus Years ago when I was an active bat worker we had a toy bat that we used to show to children but it had limited appeal. If you could make moulds from your originals and cast silicone rubber (for instance) there could be a market around bat groups and wildlife parks, museums etc. There must be someone in the uk or china who could bring them in at a cost effective choice.

[@FeraForus]

@@thestalicho That's really interesting, I'll have to look into that as an option!

[@anmolkrishna2424]

hi so a bat flew into my room last night and i left the windows and curtain open so it could fly back out but it's still here. how should i get it out?

[@FeraForus]

I'd recommend calling a local bat expert from ecology companies or someone at the bat conservation trust. They're much more likely to be able to find someone to come and help you. Don't try catching the bat yourself because they can pass a range of diseases but you won't know if you've been bitten because of how small their teeth are.

[@ian_b]

If you want to do a video just going on about how cool they are, that's fine with me at least.

[@FeraForus]

That's good to hear because I'm currently involved in bat surveying so that video will probably show up soon!