All photos, unless stated otherwise, have been taken in Bedfordshire in the last four years.

The map below shows the location of over 300 bat records for Bedfordshire collected in 2005. Absence of records in a location is likely to be due to absence of recorders rather than an absence of bats. Since the Bat group was formed in 1988 we have collected over 5000 records. Click here for more information on where we have and haven't got records

Tetrad maps for each species are published in the Annual Report

There are sixteen species of bats found in Britain. To date we have found ten of them in Bedfordshire
Click here for more on Bedfordshre records

Barbastelle Bob CornesClick here for more on our barbastelle work	Brandt's Bat Bob Cornes
Brown Long Eared Bat Simon Joynes	Common pipistrelle Bob Cornes
Daubenton's Bat Bob Cornes	Natterer's Bat Bob Cornes
Nathusius's pipistrelle Nick Tribe Lincolnshire Bat Group	Noctule Bob Cornes
Serotine Bob Cornes	Soprano pipistrelle Bob Cornes Click here for more on our soprano pipistrelle roost survey

Click here for a list of where else on this site you can find photos of specific bats

For pictures taken by bat group members in 2006/2007 click here

For help on how to identify bats in the air, (it's not easy) click here

For an excellent introduction to the biology of bats visit the Bristol University site or the Warks bat group

BCT produce a really good series of leaflets giving you information about most of these as pdf files.