Take home messages from @jackhooker.bsky.social talk for #ScotBatConf

#Beavers are good for #bats - statistically significant results for multiple bat species from @jackhooker.bsky.social research 🦇❤️🦫 #ScotBatConf

Re-establishing historic ecosystem links through targeted species reintroduction: Beaver-mediated wetlands support increased bat activity Despite the global significance of wetlands, conservation strategies often fall short in preserving these ecosystems due to failures in incorporating …

Another caffeine & bat chat fix and now we’re back for the final session of the 2025 @batconservation.bsky.social #ScotBatConf with @jackhooker.bsky.social talking about his PhD work on beavers, wetlands & the benefits to bats www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The #NorthEastScotland #BatGroup is on the ‘hunt’ for Nathusius’ pipistrelle amongst other species with a variety if surveys and activities #ScotBatConf

The Creaky Old Bat’s 100 k ultra-marathon fundraiser for Bat Conservation Trust Help Anne Youngman raise money to support Bat Conservation Trust

The incredible Anne Youngman aka ‘The Creaky Old Bat’ is running a 100k ultra marathon to raise money for #bat #conservation so please support her! www.justgiving.com/page/anne-yo... #ScotBatConf

Next up is #Ayrshire&Arran #BatGroup with some great training (inc. #NBMP #UsingYourEars & sound analysis), survey work, habitat enhancement & collaboration with other groups. #ScotBatConf

From bat box checks - 41 bats in one bat is a record for #Fife&Kinross #BatGroup - to events & modifying an old dovecot to a bat roost, another busy bat group! #ScotBatConf

Cute four legged help for #LochLomond #BatGroup with lots of training events, bat care, bat box checks, etc. #ScotBatConf

Another busy year for #Tayside #BatGroup #ScotBatConf

Fab to have Stirling University well represented at #ScotBatConf given our venue 🦇❤️🦇

Now at the #ScotBatConf is the #BatGroup spotlight session with @allysonwalsh.bsky.social being a strict time keeper for the seven groups (updates from the folks in the front row) 🦇❤️🦇

The newest #BatGroup in #Scotland is #Speyside that formed in January! They’ve been busy in those two months 🦇❤️🦇 #ScotBatConf

British Islands Bats - Accessing journal papers - Bat Conservation Trust British Islands Bats is an online journal for publishing the results of bat work across the British Islands (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland,...

You can read more about Tina Wiffen’s #pipistrelle in #winter work in Volume Four of #BritishIslandsBats #ScotBatConf www.bats.org.uk/resources/ac...

For all the big #pipistrelle #hibernation sites that Tina monitors she may find common & soprano together but never other bat species in winter #ScotBatConf these are often quite exposed places!

But they’re not always easy to spot! #ScotBatConf

Where do #pipistrelles go in winter? To church of course 🦇❤️🦇 Tina Wiffen & her group if bat folks are finding pips in hibernation in all sorts of places #ScotBatConf

Sshhh…bats sleeping! The @nationaltrust.bsky.social Seaton Delaval Hall is the largest known hibernation site for #pipistrelles in the UK #ScotBatConf

I mentioned in my talk for #ScotBatConf that @batconservation.bsky.social is recruiting volunteers for the #NationalBatHelpline - more details available online buff.ly/3ubLKs0

Great to be hearing about Eleri Kent’s project & her use of the @batconservation.bsky.social #SoundClassificationSystem #ScotBatConf

Raffle tickets and bat goodies bought, lunch eaten, and chat had! Now we’re back in session at #ScotBatConf & first up is Eleri Kent on #woodland & #bats (National Forestry definition of woodland is anything over 0.5 ha)

One suggestion by @naturescot.bsky.social is that #PestControllers can be trained to provide advice to householders on #bats 🤔 #ScotBatConf

The @naturescot.bsky.social #BatsInHouses service will continue in 2025 but with calls going through to a voicemail. Also change to who can deal with visits. #ScotBatConf

Some updates to the main @naturescot.bsky.social bat survey licence in 2025. #ScotBatConf

Did you know there was a @naturescot.bsky.social licence for #tree #roosts & #bat box checks so you don’t need to get a full survey licence if you primarily want to do box checks #ScotBatConf

Last talk of the morning at #ScotBatConf is Kevin Giles from @naturescot.bsky.social with an update on #licensing in #Scotland & the #BatsInHouses project

Definitely @dunnock67.bsky.social & from John’s talk, possibly collected elsewhere! #ScotBatConf

Scottish Bats - Accessing journal papers - Bat Conservation Trust Scottish BATS was set up by John Haddow (Central Scotland Bat Group Chair) and Jerry Herman (National Museums of Scotland) with the purpose of publishin...

You can read more about John Haddow’s work on Brant’s bat in Scotland & the suspect specimen in Scottish Bats Volume 7 from 2017 #ScotBatConf www.bats.org.uk/resources/ac...

I learn something new about #bats almost daily & today it’s the #history of how we came to know #Brandt’s #bats were in the UK #ScotBatConf

Taking a journey through time back to 1874 now at #ScotBatConf & a museum specimen of a Brandt’s bat from the #BlackWoodOfRannoch- a very rare #bat species in #Scotland today…

And the #Skye&Lochalsh #BatGroup too! They were formed in the project’s development year 🦇❤️🦇 #ScotBatConf