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Bat Book (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter marting
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Dear Martin,
Sorry I am not able to recommend a bat book but here is a link.
If you order them from the library you can browse at your leisure then purchase one that fits the bill.
http://www.batnet.org/acatalog/Book_Bazaar.html
Regards.
Gordon Boreham-Styffe.
Sorry I am not able to recommend a bat book but here is a link.
If you order them from the library you can browse at your leisure then purchase one that fits the bill.
http://www.batnet.org/acatalog/Book_Bazaar.html
Regards.
Gordon Boreham-Styffe.
CJW
Hit-and-run WUM
Hi Martin,
I think my wife has just such a book, I'll have a look when I get home (I'm in work at the moment).
From what i remember though, you would need to have the bats in the hand to get conclusive i.d. features on some of them. Identifying them from the sounds produced by 'bat detectors' is a notoriously unreliable method. You also have to be licenced to handle them.
I think my wife has just such a book, I'll have a look when I get home (I'm in work at the moment).
From what i remember though, you would need to have the bats in the hand to get conclusive i.d. features on some of them. Identifying them from the sounds produced by 'bat detectors' is a notoriously unreliable method. You also have to be licenced to handle them.
Gill Osborne
Well-known member
I'm sure the Bat Conservation Trust would be able to help with ID books/booklets.
www.bats.org.uk
Also, the Mammal Society publish very good booklets on most UK mammal species. I recently got a copy of "The Identification of British Bats" by D. W. Yalden for only £2.50.
They also do "A Guide To British Bats" by Kate Jones and Allyson Walsh...also £2.50! This one is a laminated guide which covers the ID of all British species in flight and in the hand and has colour photos, flight path diagrams and sonogram charts.
www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal
Both are well worth getting, and won't break the bank!, but I have found the best way to get to know bat ID is to go out with an expert on a bat walk or get involved with a local bat group(Bat Conservation Trust will probably give you the address of your nearest)...at least then you can actually get up close to the various species. I always remember seeing my first Noctule in the hand....I just wanted to take her home!!!
Hope the booklets above are of some use...i'm sure there are loads more books available which other members of BF will come up with for you!
www.bats.org.uk
Also, the Mammal Society publish very good booklets on most UK mammal species. I recently got a copy of "The Identification of British Bats" by D. W. Yalden for only £2.50.
They also do "A Guide To British Bats" by Kate Jones and Allyson Walsh...also £2.50! This one is a laminated guide which covers the ID of all British species in flight and in the hand and has colour photos, flight path diagrams and sonogram charts.
www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal
Both are well worth getting, and won't break the bank!, but I have found the best way to get to know bat ID is to go out with an expert on a bat walk or get involved with a local bat group(Bat Conservation Trust will probably give you the address of your nearest)...at least then you can actually get up close to the various species. I always remember seeing my first Noctule in the hand....I just wanted to take her home!!!
Hope the booklets above are of some use...i'm sure there are loads more books available which other members of BF will come up with for you!
marting
Well-known member
Thanks people for the advice. Ive sent off for a copy of "The Identification of British Bats". Ill go out with a bat group next year as my local one has finished its avents for this year. I brought this up as when I was at my local patch the other night there was alot of bat activity and I wondered what species they were and realised I see alot of bats but dont know how to id them.
Cheers Martin
Cheers Martin
