A range of bat talks will be organised over the winter months – December to April.
As each date is confirmed it will be added here. If you would like to join a talk, please email nicfaulks@hotmail.com so the joining details for Teams, can be emailed to you.
Talk 1: Wednesday 16th December 2020 Starting at 7pm – Completed, but if you would like to listen to a recording of the talk, click HERE!
Title: Winter hide and seek
Presented by: Tina Wiffen
Detail: Until recently very little was known about hibernation sites in Northumberland and the wider region. Our bats must go somewhere in winter and so we started looking for them. Over the last six years, looking in likely, and unlikely places, has led to the discovery of several previously unknown hibernacula. Most of our sites hold low numbers of bats, with the exception of two large Pipistrellus species sites. Upland lead mines have proved to be good winter sites, we now monitor these throughout the winter gathering acoustic and temperature data.
Talk 2: Tuesday 19th January 2021 Starting at 7pm – completed, but if you would like to listen to a recording of the talk, click HERE! (Sorry, recording starts 5 minutes in….)
Title: Nathusius’ Pipistrelle Migration and AudioMoths on the South Coast
Presented By: Adrian Bicker
Detail: Using acoustic methods to study bat migration is a novel and controversial approach. The prize is to paint a broad-brush picture of the flows of migrating bats around our coasts. From a single detector on Chesil Beach to 25 AudioMoths spanning The Channel, Adrian takes us on a his personal voyage of discovery, explaining how he approached the challenge and sharing his initial findings – plus a few surprises.
Talk 3: Wednesday 17th February 2021 Starting at 7pm
Title: Bat diversity from around the world. Nic has worked in a range of countries around the world and has always been fascinated by the diversity of bat species. In this talk she will explore some of the adaptations of bat species, including nose shapes, ears, echolocation and hibernation.
Presented By: Nicola Faulks
Talk 4: Monday15th March 2021 Starting at 7pm
Title: The diverse and fascinating world of bat ectoparasites! Bats have a diverse and fascinating set of ectoparasites, adapted to allow them to live on the hostile environment that is a bats body. David Dodds will explain how to identify the different groups of parasites and share some insights into their lives and how they interact with bats
Presented By: David Dodds
If you would like to join a talk, please email: nicfaulks@hotmail.com so that she can send you the joining/invite instructions – all talks will be hosted on Microsoft Teams, but you can log on as a guest through the on line browser.