17 August 2024
Two of our team (Dr Amy Louise Hall and Piers Sangan) are currently on our sister island Guernsey, undertaking bat research including tagging and tracking species of interest alongside Richard Crompton Limited – Ecology on Demand. Currently they are tracking Kuhls and Natterer’s bats to help identify roosting sites which are unknown on the island.
One of the researchers, Piers Sangan said
A fantastic and successful day radio tracking for our team in Guernsey with not 1, but 2 separate Natterer’s tree roosts found from our tagged bats. Natterer’s bats roost in tree cavities, bat boxes and old buildings, foraging along woodland edges, hedgerows and meadows. They are foraging generalists that feed by gleaning insects from foliage and aerial hawking close to vegetation. They are also able to detect insects such as copulating flies through passive listening and gleam them off walls.
They are also one of the bat species (alongside common pipistrelle, grey long-eared bat, Kuhl’s pipistrelle and nathusius pipistrelle) confirmed to be breeding in Jersey, where they were found to be breeding in artificial bat boxes during the Jersey Bat Group’s Woodland Bat Box Project (2014 – present).
