Newsletter
The newsletter Bats in Beds is produced quarterly and sent to all bat group members. Back issues can be obtained by sending £2-00per issue to:
Tony Aldhous, 16 Judite Gardens, Potton, SG19 2RJ
Please make sure to tell us which issue(s) you want.
We introduced black and white photos in the January 2005 issue. Follow the links to find colour photos, additional material that relates to articles or the articles themselves.
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A new Noctule in town ?The Luton Bat Project ? Bats in Mind ? The Kempston Bat Box Project ? A new bat species for Britain ?Bat memories The Echo ?The problem with the pancake bat ?Why bat pollinated plants are oversexed ?Mass bat mortality in India ? Bat walks and surveys ?Applied echolocation ? The Social Call ?What’s on this summer | |||||
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Volume 90 July 2010
Articles
A new Noctule in town
The Luton Bat Project
Bats in Mind
The Kempston Bat Box Project
Bat memories
The Echo
The problem with the pancake bat
Why bat pollinated plants are oversexed
Mass bat mortality in India
Bat walks and surveys
Applied echolocation
Articles
Priory Bat Box Project ( Danny has also written an article reviewing the project to date
Bats and (broom) sticks
The very hungry serotine ( see recent pictures)
Hibernation survey( see recent pictures)
The Echo
East of Englad conference
Articles
The National Bat Conference
VIPs at Whipsnade. (Sight Concern's report on our Summer bat walk)
A Five Star Hibernaculum at 5 Star Luton Hoo
Priory Park Bat boxes - five to a bed
Wildlife Travel Trip to Hungary 2009 Part 2. Bat watching for the lazy
What Salvador Dali, Great Tits and |Ground Squirrels have in common
The Echo
Summer Mistnetting
Other summer events, bat walks, stalls & talks
BatCare Team update
Newsgroup update
Indoor meetings and AGM
Articles
Bat Care in Bedfordshire More
Jersey Bats
Radiotracking a serotine More
Canoe bat paddle More
Bat Group jolly in Somerset
The Echo
Summer bat events - walks, surveys and stalls More
Two more roost visitor licences.
Christmas suggestions - Bat Group fleeces & more
Bat group newsgroupe
Membership renewal download renewal form
Hibernation surveys
Daniell Hargreaves Faceback bat photos
| Stop Press Count Bat Project is Heritage Lottery Award finalist |
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Articles
Another parti coloured bat (PD)
Bats in the Midnight Sun
Count bat update
Taking bats to a lower school
Surveys update
Inra red photography
New bat group equipment
AGM
Roost visit evening
The Echo
Christmas bats near extinction
Roads are barriers to bats
Brian the Bat
Heavy footed bats
White nose syndrome update
Australian cave art
. ..and more
Articles
Lesser Horseshoes – the Hunt is on
Roost visitor training
Bat pollination.
Stockwood Survey
Sumptuous Sopranos
Hibernation update
A new hibernation site
Sheltered accommodation 1 Priory Park( pdf)
Sheltered accommodation 2 - Marlborough Court Kempston( pdf)
BCT to visit Queen's Park pdf
Bat News
Silent bats that aren't
Update on bat walks and events
Weather Reports
White nose syndrome update
Bat group jolly
Play cafe at Kempston pdf
. ..and more
Articles
Bat group project reaches a wider audience
Bat Care
Vampires vampires feeding on a foolish human
National Geographic film of feeding vampires
Help the bird club with tawny owl records where to send records of Tawny Owls
Bat News
White nose syndrome update more from the White Nose Syndrome strategy meetingParticoloured bats
RSPCA report on bat rehabilitation
Help Bedfordshire Bird club get records of tawny owls
wind turbines and bat mortality
2009 AGM
Hungarian Bat Trip organised by the Wildlife Trust View pdf of leaflet
Articles
Adams Roost visit
All I want for Christmas
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Bat News
Summer surveys,walks and events
Bats care
Sonogram workshop
Mud eating bats Nutrition or Detoxification: Why Bats Visit Mineral Licks of the Amazonian Rainforest.
Bechstein's in Surrey
Bat box building at Queen's Park lower school
Articles
Pipistrelles Progress
Bats in Ghana see recent pictures
Bat News
Meetings and courses
Updates on surveys
For the record - some interesting records for 2008
Worlds noisiest bat Click here for more
Bats as eco warriors Click here for more
Another Daubenton tests positive for EBLV2 Click here for BCT press release
Articles
Bat records
The missing tetrads
2007-2008 Hibernation overview
The February hibernation check
A visit to Box Mine
The pipistrelle maternity roost
New survey at Harrold Odell Country Park
New survey at Priory Country Park
Plans for Queen's Park 2008
Bat News
Welcome to Gideon Best
Bat crime conviction
Magnetic sense in chinese bats
Bat's in China Bristol university website)
White nose syndrome in America
Robobat power point and the ChiRoPing project
Australian bat death and global warming
he bat group invades myspace
Note to Bat group members
Several items were removed at the 11th hour from this issue but still got onto the contents page - the items on global warming and australian fruit bats an the latest EBLV2 case will be held over until the April 2008 issue.
Articles
The bat group is twenty in 2008
Natural England Roost Visitors course
Count Bat - Bat detector training Pictures
Where to find bat recordings on the web
Mouse eared bats bats in Egypt
Egyptian cave bats in Uganda
Egyptian fruit bats at Shepreth Wild Animal Park
Another dead Bat - Lucien Freud
New bat accommodation for hibernating bats in Bedfordshire
Bat news
Bat wins national competition (see cover photo)
The bizarre sex life of the african bat bug
Vampire bats in Gran Canaria --a classic case of misreporting
Bat related crime - New BCT report
Fruit bats have a menstrual cycle
Articles
Why the subscription is going up
The Annual Report
Michele in Malaysia's Mulu Caves
Bats at Malaysia's Gomantong caves and Poring Springs .
Habitat regs made simpler
How Io ia got its name
Bat news
The summer that never was
Can bats avoid hangovers?
Bats and Marberg's disease
A new project for next year
Ideas for Christmas presents a book of bat poems
Events
Articles
The serotine project
How bats feed
Bulldog bats in Brazil Video of bulldog bats in flight
A "pond bat" in Bedfordshire click here for a photo
Bat News
What feeds on bats?
Bat aerodynamics click here for New Scientist article
Self inflating bat Click here for another example
Bats, wind turbines and migration routes
Survey Updates
A Nathusius' pipistrelle in Beds
Herts Noctules make it to YouTube click here to see them.
Serendipity- a web site of of taxonomic trivia
Articles
Hanging out at Haynes
Who's in a name?
Underneath the arches - Bats in the Transpantanal
Joan in Nepal
Hibernation Updates
Bat News
Count bat is getting bigger Click here for the latest
Bats and aircraft design Click here for link to New Scientist where you can see video footage of bats flying in a wind tunnel
Grant updates
Bats are lazy murderous sex pests
The new bat group committee
Articles
Phil Richardson on The Curious Case of the Pipistrelles in the Night
Bedfordshire's first ever albino bat record
(Bat group in Brazil with pictures)
Photogallery to accompany this article
Big bats and little bats in Trinidad and Tobago Click here for pictures
*Maned Wolves and Myotis at Caraça.
( More of that Brazil trip with pictures)
Photogallery to accompany this article
The fate of bats in the Accra Zoo redevelopment
A personal view on the quest for the elusive barbastelle
Gilbert White has more to say on bats
Are bats football supporters?
Bat News
The Bat Conservation Trust conference report
BCT and bat groups
Bat Group Diary
Count Bat comes to Bedfordshire
[UK bats ] - a new discussion forum
To infinity and beyond - plans for 2007.
Events
Articles
The curious case of the pipistrelle in the night time
*The Bat Carer's story - Part 2 Learning to fly
(Click here for a photogallery tour of Linda's set up )
"Bats not angels" - bats in a local church
More curious incidents of bats in the night
- National Bat helpline
Bats feel for their prey
Gilbert White on Bats
Joan in Hungary
*Hibernation prediction
Bat News
Bat Group Diary
Bat walks
Survey updates -, Whipsnade , Stockgrove, woodland survey
(Click here for a photogallery of the 2006 woodland survey
Bats related to horses
Vampires recognise their prey's breathing
Babbling bats
Project Saving Starbeard
Articles
*Bringing up baby The Bat Carer's Tale
The eclipse in Ghana
Ann in Costa Rica
Joan in Venezuela
*The Whipsnade Monitoring Project 2005 results (with additional illustrations)
Recent photos bat pictures featured in this issue
Bat News
Visit to John Adams Roost Click here for photogallery
BBC Springwatch Click here for photogallery
Woodland Survey
Whipsnade Walk Click here for photogallery
Pipistrelle Survey
Stockgrove Country Park survey
Volume 73 April 2006
Articles
*Identifying bats from quite a long way away
*6 figure grid references the easy way
A bat is born - bat development
A bat is born - The Bat Poet
A Ghanaian perspective on excluding bats
"No-one truly loves a bat" A 1960s viewpoint
The Whipsnade Hibernaculum Project - a historical aside
Bat News
Winter Indoor meeting round up
Whipsnade member's day. Click here for photogallery
Hibernation check update
Bat box update
Insect syringes for sampling bat blood
The truth behind Brickhill Bertie's unfeasibly large genitalia
Randy bats head for the pub
Fruit bats a reservoir for Ebola virus?
Fruit back taxonomy
The world's oldest bat?
More on Whipsnade
Events
Volume 72 January 2006
Articles
- Pat Clarke - an appreciation
Sperm storage in bats
Bat conservation in Ghana
Barbastelle radiotracking September 2005Artebius literatus - A Honduran HooliganWhy bats don't get cramp
Bat News
Bat boxes
BCT conference update wind turbines, gloves and stuff
Horseshoes and SARS
Bat group diary
Bat group activities - walks, talks, visits
Nathusius pipistrelles in Bedfordshire
Events
Volume 71 October 2005
Articles
Bat research in the 1920s
Sex and the single bat
Bat spells for Halloween
Bats in Wales
Barbastelle radiotracking August 2005 Photogallery
Bat News
Survey updates.Read about pipistrelles and sparrowhawks here
Bat group diary
Bat group summer activities - walks, talks, visits
Tamir in Honduras
Winter bat box survey
Winter hibernaculum checks
Events
Volume 70 July 2005 Barbastelle Special
Editorial
Articles
Bats and wind turbines
*A walk on the Wildside - Whipsnade Walk
Click here to read the Whipsnade Walk article
That damned elusive:barbastelle
1.The history of barbastelle in Bedfordshire
2.This year's quest -a new site
3.Notes of a radio tracker
How broad is our church?
The mouse oracle of Baule .
Bat News
BCT sunrise and sunset survey 2005
Frog eating bats
Survey updates
Bat group diary
BCT say bat numbers are rising
Are local pipistrelle numbers declining?
New noctule roost at Haynes Church End?
Vampire bat athletes
Volume 69 April 2005 Roost Special
Articles
Bats in Trees
Bats in Houses
Bats in Caves
Mark Twain on bats
The Pipistrelle Roost Project
Stockgrove Country Park
Photo tour of Stockgrove
Bat News
Warm bats
Flying doctors
Bat identification guide
Bat group diary
Hibernaculum checking highlights
Photo tour of the Aspley Guise Hibernaculum
Photo tour of the Whipsnade hibernacula
Inside the tunnel
Volume 68 January 2005 Hibernation Special
Editorial handover
Articles
The Biology of Hibernation
The Whipsnade Hibernaculum Project
Photo tour of the Whipsnade hibernacula
Bat News
Bats in dormouse boxes
Bat evolution
Bat group diary
Bats in New Zealand
Bats in Poland by Phil Richardson