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BatLife Europe is an international NGO built from a partnership of national bat conservation organisations that are committed to promoting the conservation of all bat species and their habitats throughout Europe. Facilitate international communication and knowledge sharing
☾ Identify European conservation priorities
☾ Develop pan-European projects
☾ Fundraise for international projects
☾ Deve

lop best practice guidelines
☾ Assist in capacity building
☾ Provide support and technical advice for EUROBATS initiatives
☾ Co-ordinate action in relation to special threats
☾ Collect / manage data
☾ Assist national bodies in developing / implementing national conservation plans / strategies
☾ Give international status to national NGOs
☾ Provide international support for national matters of concern

21/03/2026

☘The Irish Bat☘

Nyctalus leisleri

ialtóg Leisler

🦇Leisler’s bat is Ireland’s biggest bat. This species has a wingspan of up to 320mm, mushroom shaped tragus, and the shaggy fur, gives a 'lion's mane' appearance on the back.

Why 'The Irish Bat?' Leisler’s bat is rare in Britain and the rest of Europe but it is relatively common here. For this reason the Irish population of Leisler’s bats is considered of International Importance! 🌍

Leisler's bats are found roosting in buildings although 13% of its roosts recorded in Ireland have been in trees.

They have a distinctive level flight at greater heights than the other Irish species, from which it dives down after dung flies and beetles. It can be seen soon after sunset flying over open spaces such as parks and fields. It is one of the first bats to emerge in the evening and is quite large, so the Leisler’s bat may be confused with swifts.

BatLife Europe has named Leisler's bat as Bat Species of the Year 2026–2027.

Leisler’s bat is monitored by our Car-based Bat Monitoring Scheme. Find out how you can get involved and what else you can do to help our
👉 www.batconservationireland.org

🍀Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh ☘

Happy St Patrick's Day!


📸 Thanks to Paul Van Hoof

21/03/2026

🌟 1 week to go! 🌟

Our first of the year by Santiago Perea is just a week away!

We are really looking forward to hearing about Santiago's research which combines methodologies such as bioacoustics and camera trapping with advanced analytical and AI-driven approaches to study population dynamics and biodiversity responses to forest management and human disturbances.

📅 Wednesday 25th March

🕰 3pm SAST/CAT | 1pm GMT | 9am EDT |

🔗 https://www.batswithoutborders.org/webinars.html

🌍 ⏰ Reminder to adjust for your local timezone 😉

06/02/2026

FREE LIVE WEBINAR 🦇
Bats & Trees with Jim Mullholland

📆 Wednesday 28th January @ 6pm GMT
📝 1.5 hours CPD/CEU
🔗 https://buff.ly/v587a06

14 of the UK’s bat species live in trees, some living in them year-round. Jim will talk about:
- which bats use trees and how
- the ecology of different bat species
- which tree features provide habitat for bats
- threats to bat populations and what we can do to help

Don’t worry if you missed our last webinar on 25 years of the Bat Monitoring Programme in Nietoperek by Tomasz Kokurewic...
29/01/2026

Don’t worry if you missed our last webinar on 25 years of the Bat Monitoring Programme in Nietoperek by Tomasz Kokurewicz. It’s now available to watch on our website along with all our previous webinars

29/01/2026

Don't forget to submit your abstract for the 11th Irish Bat Conference by February 4th! We particularly welcome abstracts for speed talks on successful mitigation projects, but any batty research is welcome! More info about the conference and tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/batconservationireland/1972253

🦇Leisler’s Bat named Bat Species of the Year 2026–2027🦇The Leisler’s Bat has been selected as Bat Species of the Year 20...
16/12/2025

🦇Leisler’s Bat named Bat Species of the Year 2026–2027🦇

The Leisler’s Bat has been selected as Bat Species of the Year 2026–2027 by BatLife Europe — with a big thank you to our partners across Europe who voted for this species.

Over the next two years, conservation organisations in more than 35 European countries will work together to raise awareness of this wide-ranging but vulnerable bat and to promote solutions to the threats it faces. Although widespread, the Leisler’s Bat has a patchy distribution and depends heavily on old-growth forests. It is also a remarkable long-distance migrant, travelling hundreds of kilometres between summer and winter roosts.

One of the major threats to the species is the rapid expansion of wind energy without adequate mitigation, particularly along migration routes and in forests. By highlighting the Leisler’s Bat, BatLife Europe and its partners aim to shine a light on key conservation challenges — and on the best practices needed to protect this species across borders.

Photo credit: Charlotte Roemer & Valentin Fauconnier.

31/10/2025

📸 Free webinar: Learn how to photograph mammals in the wild with last year's Mammal Photographer of the Year winner, Paul Alistair Collins!

Wildlife photographer and MPOTY25 overall winner Paul Alistair Collins will share insights from years spent photographing British wildlife. He’ll take us behind the lens on one of his ongoing projects - photographing Norfolk’s grey seals through the winter breeding season, from the fierce battles of bulls to the tender moments between mothers and pups.

Along the way, Paul will share how to capture the essence of a subject, work a scene creatively, and translate behaviour and atmosphere into emotive images - with practical guidance and creative inspiration for anyone entering the Mammal Society’s competition this year.

To sign up to the webinar, head here: https://buff.ly/VTN7yXd

29/10/2025

🦇 🌏 Nietoperze w naszej części Europy spędzają lato przede wszystkim na strychach, poddaszach i w dziuplach, a zimują w podziemiach naturalnych (jaskinie) i sztucznych (bunkry, sztolnie itp.). To są banały znane nauce już od dawna. Ale co nietoperze robią jesienią❓

🧐 🦇 Z tą wiedzą było (i jest nadal) już nieco gorzej. Migrują i odbywają gody — te informacje można znaleźć nawet w starych książkach. Niemniej jednak jesień przez dziesięciolecia uważano za okres mało ciekawy dla badaczy latających ssaków — w letnich kryjówkach już ich nie ma (nietoperzy, nie badaczy), a zimowiska są jeszcze puste. Ale czy na pewno puste? Okazuje się, że nie do końca. Otóż w świecie tych zwierząt, między letnim rozrodem a zimową hibernacją, dzieje się coś jeszcze. Coś tak dziwnego i spektakularnego, że bywa określane fenomenem. Fenomen ten w literaturze fachowej nazwano swarmingiem, co po polsku znaczy "rojenie".
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O tajemniczych lotach nietoperzy przeczytacie (a nawet posłuchacie) w kolejnym z Salamandrowych artykułów puszczonych w świat (wiecie, gdzie szukać dostępu 😄 👇). Bardzo Was do tego zachęcamy! 🦇💚🦇
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✒️ Radosław Jaros

📷 Maurycy Ignaczak
Podkowiec mały (z lewej) jest jednym z liczniej rojących się nietoperzy przy niektórych jaskiniach południowej Polski. Nocki Natterera (z prawej) są najczęściej spotykanymi nietoperzami przy większości zimowisk



29/10/2025

Hot off the press from the EUROBATS Intersessional Working Group on Monitoring and Indicators here is a link to the "Bat monitoring programmes and protocols for European bats" dataset. It is published in the Zenodo repository and is freely available online here: https://zenodo.org/records/15346727 . Led by Adrià López Baucells: Connecting Bats & People and compiled and curated by many collaborators.

The primary objective of this dataset initiative is to compile and summarise all available information on bat monitoring protocols and programmes being implemented across the EUROBATS Parties and Range States

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Facilitate international communication and knowledge sharing ☾ Identify European conservation priorities ☾ Develop pan-European projects ☾ Fundraise for international projects ☾ Develop best practice guidelines ☾ Assist in capacity building ☾ Provide support and technical advice for EUROBATS initiatives ☾ Co-ordinate action in relation to special threats ☾ Collect / manage data ☾ Assist national bodies in developing / implementing national conservation plans / strategies ☾ Give international status to national NGOs ☾ Provide international support for national matters of concern