The Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) http://www.bats.org.uk
There’s more to bats than meets the eye - mostly because the chances of seeing one for more than a split second out of the corner of your eye on a dark night are fairly slim. This website is the place to come if you want to know what you keep missing.
If you aren’t a bat fan, the BCT is geared to converting you into more of one by soothing away your misguided fears that bats are enormous, fearsome and bloodsucking - which they aren’t, at least in the UK. And if you are a bat fan,there’s the opportunity to browse some essential bat facts to further broaden your wildlife knowledge.
The young person’s guide is a good place to start learning about bats, and by following the links, you can find out about the ways that bats live, how they use echolocation to find their way around, and you can also read up on individual species and their particular quirks.
Several bat species are in danger of extinction, and their conservation is the ultimate aim of the BCT. There are lots of ways to improve the situation for the nation’s bat populations - for example, by designing buildings to allow bats to harmlessly live in roof spaces, and by preventing further deterioration of the places that bats have found to live in an ever-expanding man-made world.There’s helpful advice on what to do if you find bats in your own belfry - namely, don’t disturb them unless you get proper advice, because they’re protected by law.
There’s links to bat groups around the country, which themselves have websites well worth a wander round. At the Norfolk bat site you’ll discover what a ‘batbrick’ is, if you didn’t already know, and the other sites have a good collection of local information, pictures and fact files between them.
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