TBG members out surveying a brown long eared bat roost for the National Bat Monitoring Programme (NBMP) 😀

Discover Your Local Bats workshop coming to Blairgowrie on Sat 24th May! No experience necessary and ideal for learning a bit about bats and how to take part in citizen science surveying and monitoring them in your local area/garden 😀 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discover-y...

Come along to the community centre in Auchterarder today to the Gardening for Wildlife event where we have a bat stall and will be giving a talk about gardening for your bats about lunchtime. There is even a free lunch and some excellent cakes 😁🦇

A lopped ash tree with dieoff which has great value for many decades as insect habitat, roosts for bats and birds, plus a red squirrel snoozing in a sunny spot at the top 😁

Putting up bat boces today in a local graveyard 😀 Thank nto Tayside Biodiversity Partnership for the boxes donation

🦇 Start thinking about how you can turn your garden into a bat haven, so it's ready for bats when they start waking up in spring! After months of hibernation they will need all the food they can get. Find out more here: https://buff.ly/2HkKSuq

🦇 In case you missed it... Not one, but two new greater mouse-eared bat have been found https://buff.ly/42wNb7l...

🦇 (1/2) In response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s speech today: we believe that blaming the laws that protect bats, newts and other wildlife, as well as our wider environment, for planning delays is short sighted and misguided.

🦇 There are over 1,400 species of bats in the world, making up 1/5 of all mammal species and 1/4 of British mammals. Bats play an important role in many habitats around the world: https://buff.ly/3ubI3Cz Images (c) Jim Jourdane

Four of the 11 Red Listed British mammals at risk of national extinction are bats #reversetheredday www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/t...

🔬 This study reveals that bats have more genetic adaptations in immune-related genes than any other mammals. One key player is the ISG15 gene, which, in certain bat species, can reduce SARS-CoV-2 production by up to 90%—highlighting their exceptional antiviral defense mechanisms

🦇 Is the government’s planning reform bad for bats? Planning reforms risk devastating impacts to bats, here's what we're doing about it and how you can help: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/01...

A rescue common pipistrelle being test flown before release 🦇 #bats #batrescue

🦇 Today is #InternationalDayOfEducation ; explore some of the amazing resources we have for teachers, voluntary groups, community leaders or anyone who wants to inspire people about bats here: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/edu...

🦇 You can read more about the discovery of a second greater mouse-eared bat in Sussex here: www.bats.org.uk/news/2023/01...

An orphan pipistrelle pup enjoying a good groom from a cotton bud after feeding 😋😍 #bats #batrescue #taysidebatgroup