News and links

Interview on Radio Wales about counting bats in a hibernation site listen here
Broadcast March 2008

Web site links
Organisations
• Bat Conservation Trust (UK) – www.bats.org.uk/
• The Mammal Society – www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal
• The Wildlife Trusts – www.wildlifetrusts.org
• Bat Conservation International (USA) – www.batcon.org
• Eurobats - www.eurobats.org
• The Countryside Council for Wales – www.ccw.gov.uk
• RSPB – www.ccw.gov.uk
• UK Biodiversity Action Plan – to follow

Equipment
• How to build your own bat detector – www.magenta2000.co.uk/kits
• Stag electronics – www.batbox.com/
• Alana ecological equipment – www.alanaecology.com/
• Live foods direct – www.livefoodsdirect.co.uk

Stuff about bats
• Bat Ecology & bio-acoustics lab @ Bristol University – www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/bats/
• Link to pdf of recent research papers (to follow)
• Bat world sanctuary – site with general info, sanctuary and education – www.batworld.org/
• Site with information on bats – http://science.howstuffworks.com/bat.htm
• European horseshoe bat research - www.rhinolophus.net
• The relationship between bats and plants - www.batplants.co.uk
• Research journal acta-chiropterologica - www.miiz.waw.pl/periodicals/acta-chiropterologica

Batty gifts and fun!
• Bat e cards - www.krittercards.com/bat.htm
• Bat gifts – www.krittersinthemailbox.com/animals/bats/index.htm
• Site for kids with facts & info – http://aol.com/bats4kids/index.htm
• Bat cam, based in Washington but with both live & recorded footage – http://www.wdfw.wa.gov/wildwatch/batcam/index.html
• Bat web cam at Woodchester Mansion – www.english-nature.org.uk/webcams/bats/
• Bat web cam footage from the cloud forests of central America – www.cloudforestalive.org/tour/batcam/
• Bat detective – www.batdetective.com/
• Chester zoo – www.chesterzoo.org.uk/
• Shows pictures of 9 bat species, facts & news letter + cursor is followed by a flying bat on screen – uksafari.com/bats/htm
• Bat quiz – www.lawrancehallofscience.org/batquiz/
• The bat cave, an illustrated guide to bats in the UK – www.first-nature.com/bats/
• Info about Nathusius pipistrelle – www.nathusius.org.uk

Other bat groups in Wales
• Welsh bats – www.welshbats.org.uk/
• North Ceredigion – http://users.aber.ac.uk/ltt/bats/
• Pembrokeshire – www.pembsbats.org.uk