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Old 10-07-2006, 02:34 PM
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Where are the Bats?

As this is the beginning of a global forum I had better brush up on my world bats are there any like minded people out there?
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Old 23-07-2006, 07:05 AM
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I can say that I love Bats, mainly becuase of Batman and the way Bats live.
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Old 10-10-2006, 04:13 PM
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Fasinating creatures, I'd like to learn more too. I find fruit bats and the adorable little Honduran White Bats the most appealing.

A good place to start is Wikipedia, it has a very informative entry here. Anybody got any great Bat sites they want to post links to here?
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Old 21-03-2007, 10:28 AM
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Sydney!

My husband and I, have just returned from 5 weeks holiday in Thailand, New Zealand and Australia. One of our abiding memories will be seeing the nightly flight of thousands of flying-fox bats leaving the botanical gardens in Sydney. They travel in a fairly small corridor, some just about 20 feet above your head. As they are so big (almost the same size as a crow) it is a sight you could not miss. Wonderful to witness - even if they are seen as a pest by some! Visit Botanic Gardens Trust - Flying foxes for more info.

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Old 21-03-2007, 08:08 PM
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Brilliant. The web page is interesting especially for showing the conflicts that can occur in urban areas - how to allow both bats and plants to survive!
Thanks, Paul
I bet you've got a lot more interesting reminiscences of your tour!
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My husband and I, have just returned from 5 weeks holiday in Thailand, New Zealand and Australia. One of our abiding memories will be seeing the nightly flight of thousands of flying-fox bats leaving the botanical gardens in Sydney. They travel in a fairly small corridor, some just about 20 feet above your head. As they are so big (almost the same size as a crow) it is a sight you could not miss. Wonderful to witness - even if they are seen as a pest by some! Visit Botanic Gardens Trust - Flying foxes for more info.
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Over the summer months I love to watch the bats that fly over the garden – common pipistrelle’s I think. It’s a bit of a double wammy, those of you who know me – know I love moths and have planted to attract moths, this has attracted the bats too which is fantastic but I do feel for my moths!
I can practically time them coming over, sweeping and circling over the garden – the silly thing is when I first noticed them I thought they were swifts (in the dark, yes -stupid eh !) before it dawned what they were!
It has been so difficult to get photo’s of them -as they are so fast and it is dark. I only ever managed one very bad image, that was last year when the bat was against a neighbours white wall.
We live in a town, but bats live in roofs in the immediate area in two places I know of. One is the church roof over the road, and the other is a large house close by with a proper roof (not flat like ours, and most in the area), they have clay pan tiles and the owners have especially adapted tiles with space for bats, these tiles are also on the church roof.


In Holland we have 19 types of Bat – which surprised me really, I thought there would be 3 or 4 types. The sad thing is we have lost 3 types completely in the last 50 years.
All bats in Holland are protected by law but even so there are 9 species currently on the danger list.
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