Information for bat protection
“dadada”, “mamama”, “baba” – Everyone who has infants is familiar with this vocal behaviour called babbling, a milestone in human infant speech development. Successful language acquisition requires the ability to produce canonical syllables such as /da/ba/ga/ and infants practice them
Last year, the Saxon State Office for the Environment, Agriculture and Geology published a reprint of the brochure “Fledermausquartiere an Gebäuden” (Bat Quarters on Buildings), which was created by the long-standing expert Christiane Schmidt. It is now the 4th edition
Our French colleagues from the Natural History Museum in Paris have launched a Europe-wide project onmigration routes (Bat migration routes in Europe)in which you can actively participate. With the help of bioacoustic recordings, the migratory behaviour of bat species that
51 europäische Arten schnell und sicher unterscheiden Fledermäuse sind echte Sympathieträger. Ihre Fähigkeit, sich im Dunkeln mittels Echoortung fortbewegen zu können, macht sie zu Jägern der Nacht. Dieses kompakte Bestimmungsbuch des anerkannten Fledermausexperten Klaus Richarz ermöglicht eine sichere Bestimmung aller
On 19/06/21 the first summer conference of the German Bat Observatory took place in the tranquil vaults in the Citadel Spandau (Berlin) in cooperation with the Berlin Species Protection Team (BAT e.V.) and the Working Group Applied Zoology and Nature
Burkhard Kern, in cooperation with the Arbeitskreis Fledermäuse Sachsen-Anhalt e.V., has produced a vivid poster that is intended to help to distinguish the four Pipistrellus species occurring in Central Europe. PDF Download
New issue of the “Journal of Bat Research and Conservation” published, Volume 14 (1) 2021, the successor of the former Spanish journal “Barbastella”. The issue is published open access, i.e. all articles can be downloaded free of charge as PDF.
A new issue of Nyctalus has been published – Volume 19 Issues 4-5 can now be ordered: https://nyctalus.com/bestellung/ (Note for subscribers: The issue will be delivered next week) Content (https://nyctalus.com/alle-hefte/band-19-heft-4-5/): Original studies Röse, N., Sauerbier, W. & Fritze, M.: Long-term
New issue of Acta Chiropterologica published. The content can be found under the following link: https://bioone.org/journals/acta-chiropterologica/current
This year’s long cold spring is raising concerns among many bat protectors about upcoming births. Malnutrition in female bats is known to cause abortion to avoid pregnancy and raising young under poor nutritional conditions. Long dry periods and the increasingly