To help us give you the best experience possible, please accept all cookies. Customise cookies. The National Bat Helpline can answer your questions and concerns about bats and give you advice. There is also an Out of Hours Helpline which is run by volunteers between May - September and is for emergency calls only:.
You can also email enquiries bats. The last known individual of the greater mouse-eared bat was a male, who was nicknamed the loneliest bat in Britain. Then last week not one, but two new individuals were found! Keep reading to find out more. Every year, volunteers and members of bat groups carry out hibernation surveys in known and potential bat roosts so we can understand how UK bat populations are doing.
Since the discovery of a second greater mouse-eared bat in , members of Sussex Bat Group have been eager to find if this was the start of a new colony. But during the winter season, neither of the two bats were found.
Did the bats decide to roost elsewhere in the region, or did they leave the UK altogether? On the 18 January hope was, however, restored!
During a hibernation survey, members of the Sussex Bat Group found a greater mouse-eared bat. She said the area has excellent swarming sites where enthusiasts enjoy watching several rare bat species, including greater and lesser horseshoes and Myotis species. ID books at the ready, we surmised it was probably a greater mouse-eared bat. We have since had that confirmed.
