Course curriculum

More talks will be added after other conferences throughout the year and as speakers grant us permission to share their talk

    1. Introduction

    1. Welcome

    2. Bat Conservation Trust Update - Kit Stoner (Bat Conservation Trust)

    3. From bat records to predictive maps: developing regional bat habitat suitability models for Yorkshire– Matthew Whittle and Greg Slack (SLR Consulting & Middleton Bell Ecology)

    4. Snug as a bat in a box: patterns of year-round bat box use and response of roosting Pipistrellus bats to winter temperatures – Bethany Beck (South Yorkshire Bat Group)

    5. ‘Ome-ing in on Bat Poop’: Shotgun Metagenomics of Bat Droppings from Wild and Rehabilitating Yorkshire Bats – Dr Colin Townsley (West Yorkshire Bat Group)

    6. No rest for the winged: Analysing factors that cause stress and burn out in bat carers – Hannah Wilson (Cleveland Bat Group)

    7. Bat Box Uptake by Colonies: What we know and what we still need to find out– Rich Flight (Flight Ecology)

    1. Introduction

    2. Landscape for Lessers - Daniel Hargreaves

    3. Wales Woodland Wonders - Elliot Bastos

    4. Advanced Thermal Vision surveying techniques for ecologists - Andrew Milner, Thermal Vision Ecology

    5. It's all about b-attitude! Naomi Webster

    6. Swansea Stars of the Night - Bethan Withey

    7. Building relationship and engaging members - Naomi Webster

    8. BCT Update - Joe Nunez-Mino

    9. Bat Mitigation Workshop - Richard Crompton

    1. Introduction

    2. Keynote talk: Using genomics to inform bat conservation under global change - Dr Ricardo Rocha, Department of Biology, University of Oxford

    3. BCT Update - Kit Stoner, BCT Chief Executive

    4. The Abundance and Structure of Type-C Social Calls at a Soprano Pipistrelle Maternity Roost as Juveniles Increase in Independence - Emily Hill, Hartpury University

    5. Bat migration routes in Europe: an acoustic venture - Charlotte Roemer, French Natural History Museum

    6. It's all about "b-attitude" - what have we learned about people's attitudes to bats? - Naomi Webster, BCT

    7. Bats in dynamic agricultural landscapes: what are the benefits of mixed farming? - Rochelle Kennedy, Scotland’s Rural College / University of Stirling

    8. Connecting people and landscapes in a changing climate - Danielle Smith, BCT

    9. Arid zone bats and fenced conservation reserves - Oliver Aylen, University of New South Wales

    10. Using a land-bridge island system to investigate the long-term responses of bats to forest fragmentation - Dillan Hoyt, University of Oxford

    11. Bats and Aerial Thermal Surveys - Giles Coe, Co-ecology

    12. Seasonal variation in bat activity levels at underground sites in Jersey - Annika Binet, AKB Ecology

    13. Ultra-Violet fluorescence in lesser and Blasius’s horseshoe bats; is it maladaptive for the bats but useful for batworkers? - Henry Schofield, University of Sussex

    14. Assessing the Impact of Anthropogenic Disturbance on the Welfare of Lesser Horseshoe Bats (Rhinolophus hipposideros) through Non-Invasive Hormone Analysis - Lucy Morison, University of Chester

    1. Conference overview

    2. Update on the work of the Bat Conservation Trust - Kit Stoner

    3. Sleepless in Snetterton - Abi Gray and Sam Shelley

    4. Danbury Living Landscape Barbastelle project - Graham Hart & Lynden Reed, Essex Bat Group

    5. Assessing migration of bat species and interactions with offshore wind farms in British Waters - Jack Hooker, BCT.

    1. Conference overview

    2. Assessing migration of bat species and interactions with offshore windfarms in British Waters - Dr Jack Hooker

    3. The Bailiwick Bat Survey: Four Years of Baseline Data for the Bats of Guernsey, Sark and Alderney - Matt Lewis

    4. BCT update - Joe Nunez-Mino,

    5. A review of known autumn swarming sites in Surrey - Ross Baker & Lynn Whitfield

About this course

  • £25.00 / year
  • 88 lessons
  • 25 hours of video content

Great CPD for professional & volunteer bat workers

More content added after each conference

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