Last Updated October 2008
Surveys
Projects
Links
Webweaver: Jude Hirstwood
Last Updated October 2008
Surveys
Projects
Links
Webweaver: Jude Hirstwood
Please let us know if any of the links are broken
Links have been subdivided as follows:
Organisations
Links to the home page of the organisation listed.
This list includes national, international and local groups with whom we have links
Other links As I browse the internet, sometimes sites just jump out and grab me. See more of these on the Chiroptrivia pages
Newsletter Links
External links to specific items in the newsletter. Organised by newsletter date.
July 2006
April 2006
January 2006
October 2005
July 2005
April 2005
January 2005
The first port of call for information about bats in Great Britain.
The Bat Conservation Trust also runs a 24 hour helpline to provide
expert advice on all aspects of bat conservation.They completedy revmped their website in Spring 2008 and it is now much more accessible.
Helpline number is 0845 1300 228.
Bat Conservation International. A huge American site with a massive archive
of articles
The Greensand Trust is an independent environmental charity that works with local
communities and landowners to conserve and promote the distinctive
landscape, wildlife and history of the Greensand Ridge, and to improve
access, understanding and enjoyment of this fascinating area.
Most of our best bat sites are on the Greensand Ridge
http://www.greensand-trust.org.uk.
The Bedfordshire Natural History Society endeavours to cover all branches of natural history particularly in relation to Bedfordshire.
http://www.bnhs.org.uk . It has helped us with the purchase of bat detectorbat......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................s
The Bedfordshire,
Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough Wildlife Trust is the
largest charity working for the conservation of wildlife and wild
spaces within the three counties.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
An excellent source of on line information about wildlife in the news, including bats, can be found at http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/newspaper
If you are a group who want to encourage participation by groups who don't usually get involved with things environmental you'd do a lot worse then have a look at the Black Environmental website. They are passionate about what they do, have loads of experience and are really helpful. http://www.ben-network-org-uk
Friends in Bedfordshire
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The Bedfordshire moth group site is a labour of love with some amazing photos of the creatures bats like to lunch on www.vc30moths.org
Bedfordshire Wildlife Rescue, based in Leighton Buzzard, does what it says on the tin, and provides care for a wide range of injured wildlife. www.wildlife-rescue.org
The Community Tree Trust is a charity which collects seeds from native plant species, grows them on and sells them to the public. They hold regular collection days. dates for which are in the latest edition of their newsletter which is posted on their website
The Royal Zoological Society website Advance notice. Check here for bat related activities that escape the clutches of the newsletter
Bat group member Toby has recently returned from a trip to Malawi . You can see some of his photos at www.photogallery.com/watermark
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Bat group member "Watermark" is an accomplished photographer . . Check out his pictures here Check out his pictures here |
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Bat group member J 's set up a business selling dog collars. She's also making bat themed leatherwork for us to sell at events.Check out her website |
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Bat group member Ceramacist Eve Carroll has made us some items to sell on the stall at events. Contact her at (delete)evestudiopottery@gmail.com- (obvious delete adelete" before you send the e mail
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Bat groups we have links with
The Herts and Middlesex bat group are a very active group who have helped out on our barbastelle tracking projects
Herts have posted a video clip of Noctules emerging from one of their roosts on You Tube Click here
The Cambridgeshire Bat Group and the Bedfordshire Bat Group do a lot of
work together including tracking barbastelles, hibernaculum checking
and generally taking the mick. http://www.cambsbats.co.uk
In 2005 the Bedfordshire Bat Group finally got round to working with the North Bucks Bat Group to hunt barbastelles on the Beds/Bucks border. They rapidly got up to speed on micky taking - and we've found already been successful in finding barbastelles, though at the moment they are mainly confined to the Beds side of the border. http://www.northbucksbatgroup.org.uk
The Warwickshire Bat Group has a well established, wide ranging and authoritative site. A first class source of information http://www.warksbats.co.uk
The Surrey Bat Group home of ace photographer Derek Smith .Click here and here to see his pictures taken when we met him in Brazil in August 2007
Jon Russ' site is awash with information about Nathusius' Pipistrelle
A new bat group e mailed to introduce themselves. If you are in the London area, pay them a visit www.leevalleybats.org.uk
The Bats of Barro Colarado Island Panama
I came across this after we got back from Brazil in August 2007. I wish we'd found it before we went. The photos are excellent. They also have some video footage. Well worth a visit.
This is a wonderful site, crammed full of fascinating snippets about the interaction between bats and plants. It has lots of lovely drawings and wonderfully quirky articles with titles such as "Bats, The Stinking Toe Tree, Amber and Violins
(c)Marie Louise Crosby. Used with permission
Photo of brown long eared bats.(c) Ann Bakka .Used with permission
Click here, and once there click on Ann Bakka's picture. Her bat photos are on page 2/3 and 4 of her album.
Click here, Buzbee's bat house is an American site with the most amazing links section you could hope to meet. Don't go here if you only have five minutes to spare.
Sugar metabolism in nectar feeding batsHangover cure for bats?Bats and Marburg disease
Bat logos on aircraftself inflating bat research on bat flight in wind tunnelsRichard George's poem Chiroptera
The wise Bat - A tibetan bat tale
Pictures of some of the bats we saw in Brazil
Stained glass window at Selbourne - complete with bat
The bat with an incredibly long tongue
Articles
A place to stay in Hungary if you want to see horseshoe bats
Gilbert White's letters online
Bat lit
Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village
The Echo
vampire recognise previous prey by their breathing
Bats related to horsesBack to the top
Film clip of vampires running on a treadmill
The Echo Derek's Guardian Country DIary article on the Jan hibernaculum check Photo of Black Bat Flower (Tacca chantrieri ) Calculate 6 figure grid references by MAGIC Randell Jarrell - The Bat Poet Back to the top Volume 72 January 2006 BBC report on horseshoe bats and SARSAbstract for original paper on bats and SARS BCT new leaflet on woodland management Jon Russ' Nathusius pipistrelle site Pete Muese's Bat boxes then click on "Pete's boxes" in the sidebar when you get there for Kevin's account of the hibernaculum project Back to the top Volume 71 October 2005 Sex and the single bat Grey headed flying fox courtship with pictures! The Echo (c) Valerie & Joseph Craig. Used with permission Events Bat boxes Click here for the Warwickshire Bat Groups most excellent guide to building/buying bat boxes and what bat signs to look for. Bats and Wind turbines The elusive barbastelleAn account of the work carried out at Wimpole
More on this web site on barbastelles The Joint Nature Conservation Committee's list of SACs (special areas of conservation) for barbastelles (which includes WImpole) What do you mean you think I made it up? Try google. As requested I have posted the original on this site. Click here to read it This wonderful photo by Merlin Tuttle and others like it can be viewed on the national geographic website
Identification guide
A free identification guide to European bats consisting of two pdf
files crammed full of beautiful and very clear photographs.
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/tierphys/Kontakt/mitarbeiter_seiten/dietz
Bedfordshire Bat Recorder Joan Child's article "Bat Crime" http://www.eurobats.org (see
link "Publications" => "Eurobat")
New Zealand bats in general.
http://www.doc.govt.nz/Conservation/001~Plants-and-Animals/001~Native-Animals/Bats-(Pekapeka)/index.asp
Teenage girl survives rabies without vaccination
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/hea;th/4043005.stm
The Echo
Bat research in the 1920s Examples of Thorburns's pictures
Epauletted bat Hammer headed bat
Volume 70 July 2005 Barbastelle Special
Volume 69 April 2005 Roost Special
Noctule flight path map (in March area
of Cambridgeshire). If you would like a copy, let us know and
we'll pass your details on.
email us at batsinbeds@fsmail.net
Volume 68 January 2005 Hibernation Special
New Zealand carvings of bat used in article.
http://www.carving.co.nz/hobbs.html
More information about Dactylanthus (the very strange plant the short
tailed bat pollinates).
http://www.doc.govt.nz/Conservation/001~Plants-and-Animals/002~Native-Plants/index.asp
Photos and a film sequence of the short tailed bat crawling across the forest floor.
(And only one click away will be a duck billed platypus.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/up_close/bat_social.shtml
