An introduction to British Bat's - The British Mammal Guide

I have heard soprano pipistrelle

That is very peculiar noises at the start of the video 😕☹️

BATS IN THE UK (breeding species only)
Species | Average Strongest Echolocation Frequency (kHz)

Noctules (Nyclatus):
Noctule | 20-25
Leisler's | 25

House bats (Eptesicus):
Serotine | 27

Barbastelles (Barbastella):
Barbastelle | 32

Pipstrelles (Pipistrellus):
Nathusius pipistelle | 39
Common pipistrelle | 45
Soprano pipistrelle | 55

Mouse-eared bats (Myotis):
Alcathoe | 43-46
Whiskered | 45
Brant's | 45
Daubenton's | 45
Natterer's | 50
Bechstein's | 50

Long-eared bats (Plecotus):
Brown long-eared | 45-50
Grey long-eared | 45-50

Horseshoe bats (Rhinopholus):
Greater Horseshoe | 80
Lesser Horseshoe | 108

Me and my friend recently found a bat on the floor with a damaged wing. I was wondering if I would be allowed to nvm it says I can help them, thank you!!

Fascinating

These can carry strands of rabies in the UK

I see them every night outside my bedroom window. Cute things.

I put rubbish outside at 3:45am and two were flying around at the back of my house, for a moment I thought they were massive moths and nearly had a trouser accident. I’m very pleased to know they are simply feasting on the swarm of midges outside my bedroom window.

They get very close when I was watching them, they are protecting me from the tiny mosquitoes trying to devour my precious blood. Bats are awesome, I love them. Thanks for the video.

its a shame such cute creatures are usually only mentioned to be carriers of rabies or other deadly viruses but not the positive sides of them

We get bats in our back garden during summer. I dont know what species they are, though they are dark and not very big though not tiny either.

I went on holiday for a few days and came back to a bat sleeping between the folds of my living room curtains. Bizarre really, as there were no windows open. Luckily I was only away for a few days. I switched the lights off and opened all of the living room windows. Flew out almost instantly.
They are really beautiful.

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I have a bat in my loft

Nice !

Covid

I been able to watch these every night in cambridge. Any park or along the river you will see a bit

I am able to sit out in my garden at night and it is very common for bats to fly close. They’re very interesting, I love them

They are so adorable !!!!
I saw many last night near mine and my sister ran away screaming 😂

Rarely seen apart from the one that crashed into me last night while I was in my garden.

Surprisingly cute

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You used to find them in the woods by the old powerplant by my estate

Exterminate bats. they only spread a lot of diseases such as Rabies, Ebola and the pandemic that is now going on with the Corona virus

Do you have any information about Slovenia

Aww they so fluffy

Steve u sound like a woman bro lol 🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

I've once held a bat in my hands. It was around 1990, I was on a London nightbus going home, a little squiffy, on the top deck. The bus was full. As we finished crossing the Thames, a bat was scooped up by the open front window. It flew panicked up and down the top deck a few times while people pointed and oohed and squealed, then came to rest on the back of the left shoulder of a man sitting in the seat to the front of the stairs, and he either was playing it cool or didn't realise it was there. Then my stop was coming up so as I got to the stairs, I picked the bat off his shoulder (and then suddenly wondered if I was scared of bats, apparently not). It tried to escape so it was crawling through my hands and I was very worried about not hurting it but not letting it escape again.

Anyway, I got off the bus and held my hand up and it sat there for a few seconds getting its head together, then it flew off into the night looking all the world like a fake bat from a Dracula movie. Everyone on the bus cheered. I've always hoped he or she got home okay.

There is a bat in my living room right now, I have no idea where it has gone now

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I really enjoyed watching this- thanks for uploading it! We have bats in our loft. A bat woman came out to do a survey and said there were 2 different breeds in our loft one was a pipistrelle and I can't remember the other one unfortunately. We see them flying each evening at dusk. The reason I found this page was because I was searching for audio of bat sounds as there has been the strangest sound outside our window for the past few days. It's like a chirruping type of sound. I'm not sure if it's bats or what?!

Distances of sound

I have many bats living in the houses near me. I began seeing them in Summer last year.

Rarely seen my arse, one hit me the other day 😂

Found a little pipistrelle on park and took it to RCPCA shelter, this was in the 90s. I prob wouldn't have just picked it up if I'd known about rabies then. It didn't bite tho it just grabbed my finger with its feet and hung off it. It was adorable, I think it might have been a young one. I see bats all over at dusk, it doesn't matter where I've lived. I live in a city but there's loads of green spaces. There's several big parks, canal and river and fields and two brooks go through the city in small v valleys separated off from roads and housing developments.

in my 21 years on this earth, I have never seen a bat in England!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sad to think now that great mouse eared bat might not be alive anymore

Ive been seeing them a lot recently. I moved to the outer city where there are less buildings and noise and i wonder if thats why ive been able to spot them. It was just flying around me and my dog when i was taking her out at about 11pm. I was wondering if it trying to threaten us to tell us to beat it but i guess it was just trying to eat. Thats one problem out here near a lot of trees and grass areas, moths and insects.

Seen a few bats flym about in the area whare I reside! I colliquilly call em pip squeak bats!

Glad they specified that it's the only mammal capable of controlled flight, because I'm sure if I throw a child hard enough they'd achieve flight, just not controlled one

I caught one by accident whilst fishing once years ago

Thank you for your video. I found what I wanted - the season for pipistrelle mating. I saw plenty of them last Autumn, in Walton Hall Park, Liverpool. I hope they will return later in the year.

I nearly throw hands with bats every time I run I hate the little fuckers

What is that (bat/bird) at the beginning? Making the oooooh sound? I hear it a lot near my house (Kent) and can’t work out what it is!

Got six bats flying around my house and garden, I love watching them fly around and turning on a sixpence and darting back and forth

Legislation forbidding us from disturbing bats? Well, I'm quite disturbed by bats and the last thing I'd want is them squatting in my loft. In 2004 a bat bit a gentleman in Scotland, giving him rabies with the inevitable consequences. More numerous cases have occurred in the USA with the only known survivor of the disease having contracted it courtesy of a bat bite. Top tip - if you see a bat flying around during the day, get the hell out of Dodge - it means that there's something wrong with it. Don't go playing about with them unless you are an expert in their care, for your sake and theirs.