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Bat Week 2024

It’s Bat Week, a week to celebrate the role of bats in nature.

Bat Week is an international celebration designed to highlight the importance of bats and the ongoing conservation efforts needed to protect these incredible creatures.

Held from 24th to 31st October we will be posting some information about our bats this week.
Bats are keystone species, this means they have an important role in keeping the ecosystem in balance. If bat populations reduce all other plants and animals in the ecosystem will suffer along with humans.

The Common Pipistrelle is the most abundant bat species in the Bailiwick. The common pipistrelle bat is very small weighing around 5 grams which is the same as a 20p piece. Despite their size however, a single pipistrelle can eat 3,000 tiny insects in just one night!

This is the last week of the 2024 Bailiwick Bat Survey.
 
At the end of each year, BTO produces an annual summary report of the findings. The reports include a full species-by-species breakdown of spatial, seasonal and through-the-night patterns of activity.
 
You can read the 2023 Bailiwick Bat Survey Report here – https://www.bto.org/…/newson_et_al_2024_bto_rr_764.pdf
 
During 2023, 582 different locations across the Bailiwick of Guernsey were surveyed. Recording was undertaken on 228 different nights mainly between April and the end of October, amounting to a total of 2,260 nights of recording effort across sites.
 
 
The Guernsey Bat Group will be leading a Guided Bat Walk on Sunday 27th October at Saumarez Park, from 5.15pm.