NI Bat Group

Rescue season never really ends - people are still finding bats even during winter 🦇 Our online query form is sent directly to a network of amazing volunteers with over 30 years experience & the volunteer nearest to you will respond to you directly bats-ni.org.uk/bat-queries/

Happy Bat Appreciation Month 🦇 To celebrate we're sharing a good news story - another successful release! Look at those ears & how they just pop up! 😍 Thanks to volunteer Steven 👏 #LoveBats #BatAppreciationMonth #october #bats

🦇AGM 2024🦇 Sun 29 Sept 2pm – 4pm Dunsilly Hotel, Antrim - Several guest speakers - Re-election of the committee - Refreshments Everyone welcome, but please let us know if you will be attending by e-mailing us by 25 September:  secretary@bats-ni.org.uk #LoveBats #bats

🦇CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS🦇 @BatConservIre are looking for volunteers to help with their 🚗 🦇monitoring programme in #NorthernIreland in areas H79 & J33 #LoveBats #wildlife #conservation #IrishBats #volunteer

Meet Mrs Floofball! Gorgeous greater horseshoe bat 🦇 #bats #wildlife #conservation #fluffy

A great career opportunity for anyone passionate about nature please share 🦇🦋🐝🦉🦡🐿🐦 👇 #CareerGoals #biodiversity #wildlife #nature #JobHunt @cedarnmni

🦇VOLUNTEER SURVEY TRAINING 🦇 Learn how to do a @_BCT_ Roost Count & @BatConservIre Woodland Bat Survey 👇 facebook.com/share/v/59kHVZ… #LoveBats #CitizenScience

🦇BAT AMBULANCE TRAINING🦇 Interested in becoming a volunteer bat ambulance driver? Come along to our free event. 📅Saturday 8th June 🕑2pm - 4.30pm 👉Lough Neagh Discovery Centre To book 👇 tinyurl.com/yc2yuhfr #LoveBats #bats #batrescue

@RSPBNI are recruiting a #SpeciesRecovery Partnership Manager 👇 app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Caree… #LoveBats #wildlife #nature #NorthernIreland

🦇Lots of rescues coming in today! Find out how to contact us & how to contain the bat 👇 facebook.com/share/p/fsvjFK… #LoveBats

🦇HELP US COUNT BATS🦇 It's that time of year again when we prepare for the annual @_BCT_ @BCT_NBMP Roost Monitoring Surveys 🏡 👉Want to get involved? Learn more at tinyurl.com/3bkrkhkn We will announce some roost count training events soon... #LoveBats #volunteer #bats

Batty Easter from us and the bats 🦇 #LoveBats #Easter

If you find a bat on the ground or exposed area during the day it may need help. What to do: 1. Put the bat in a box, using gloves or tea towel (advice here: bats.org.uk/advice/help-iv…) 2. Call the National Bat Helpline on 0345 1300 228 (UK) 3. Can't get through or the Helpline is closed? Check this page for other numbers/alternative advice: bats.org.uk/advice/help-iv…

🦇WAKEY WAKEY🦇 Bats are more active this week & we had more rescues including this common pipistrelle from Ballymoney - he had a run in with a cat and was lucky to escape with just a small puncture in the membrane. Thanks to finder Nathan & our ambulance driver Ian #LoveBats

Volunteers are at the very heart of bat conservation in the UK - without their dedication and support, much of our work would not be possible. And you can be part of it! buff.ly/47XclLz

Please do not disturb hibernating bats. Not only is it illegal to do so but it can endanger their chances of survival through winter as they can use vital fat reserves when they become active unnecessarily.

A very Merry Christmas from us & the bats 🦇 #LoveBats #bats #MerryChristmas

Today's bat (and final from my trip to Thailand): Chaerephon plicatus, half a million bats inhabit this cave. They emerge at dusk in a column to feed at night on planthoppers, a desastrous pest insects for rice plants. Keep on doing your good job for people in Southeast Asia!

November is here and for bats periods of torpor are lasting longer. Some begin hibernation, to save energy over the colder months, when insects are harder to find. They are using stored fat as fuel to get them through the winter. bats.org.uk/about-bats/a-y… #WinterIsComing #bats

HAPPY HALLOWEEN from us & the bats 🦇 #LoveBats #samhain #Halloween

Representations of #bats are everywhere at the moment as we approach #Halloween2023 but bats are still widely misunderstood and undervalued. Please help us continue to inform, educate and engage more people all year round so we can chance misconceptions buff.ly/3KhRObq