Mayo Bat Rehab

08/07/2024

Please forgive me if I can't respond to calls or messages. I just lost my best friend and need a couple of days to get over it.

03/07/2024

05/05/2024

A new study calls for the urgent need for a coordinated global response to the alarming rate of bat fatalities caused by wind turbines, which kill over 800,000 bats per year. https://www.batcon.org/press/urgent-call-for-global-response-to-bat-fatalities-from-wind-energy/

04/05/2024

🦇We are now on Linked In🦇

Follow us for updates 👇

https://www.linkedin.com/company/bat-conservation-ireland/

26/04/2024

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23/04/2024

This will really go towards helping our native bat species to thrive.🦇🦇💜💜🦇🦇

Make your garden a bat haven. This lovely illustration featured in the Spring 2024 issue of our membership magazine Bat News.

You can find more tips on how to make your garden bat friendly here: https://buff.ly/41hJbVs

And info about membership here: https://buff.ly/3vEZeyL

22/04/2024

Thanks to a perfect window of opportunity weatherwise, 3 bats were released on Saturday night back where they were found and another 3 were released likewise on Sunday evening. Good result all round. 🦇🦇🦇💜💜💜🦇🦇🦇

06/04/2024

Well done on 20 years of Bat Conservation Ireland!

🎉CELEBRATE WITH US🎉

This year we will celebrate 20 years of Bat Conservation Ireland 🥳

To mark this milestone, we have organised a calendar of events including a very special event in October 😉

More details to follow so watch this space.....

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02/04/2024

Another in our poster series for vet clinics and general awareness.

Birds a very busy right now and will continue to be over the next few months. Have a look at this poster, and think before approaching a young bird (or animal). It is best to seek professional advice.

If you don't see this on your vet's notice board, please request they print it out. Your feathered friends will thank you.

17/03/2024

☘🦇Happy St. Patrick’s Day from everyone at Bat Conservation Ireland🦇☘

Lá fhéile Phádraig shona ó gach duine i gCaomhnu na Sciatháin Leathair in Éirinn.

Bat Conservation Ireland is an independent, non-profit, charity that is Ireland’s leading authority on bats.

🦇We conduct monitoring and research to increase knowledge of all Irish bat species.
🦇We work to secure and expand existing bat populations, and where feasible to extend their ranges.
🦇We aim to develop a genuine and widespread understanding and appreciation of bats through education, training, volunteering and other projects.
🦇We work to secure consistent protection of all bat species and the ecological infrastructure necessary to support them.

You can help bats by:

👉 Becoming a volunteer on the Irish Bat Monitoring Programme

€ Making a donation to help support our education and conservation work across the island

🦇 Joining your local bat group to help bats in your area

🌱 Creating a bat friendly area in your garden, school, or community centre

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Find out more at www.batconservationireland.org

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03/11/2023

We often post about the dangers faced by our wild neighbours on the roads of Ireland, but the number of wildlife traffic related injuries and fatalities is not reducing.

How much does signage cost? Because no signage is costing too many wild lives.

08/10/2023

A property developer has been ordered to pay over £14k for breaching the conditions of a European Protected Species Bat Mitigation Licence in Derbyshire.

07/09/2023

Glue traps are the most cruel and painful torture instruments ever invented! If you must use them, then PLEASE put a mesh around them and protect mammals and birds from being starved to death!

18/06/2023

Such a simple way to protect small mammals and birds from suffering.

17/06/2023

Yesterday, I gave a talk about bats to a group of children at St. Anthony's Special School on Humbert Way. What a lovely time I had with lots of questions too. The children were all lovely and so interested in bats! Many thanks to Gemma for organising this with me.

27/05/2023

20/05/2023

We are delighted to share this for Swift Conservation UK.

This webinar is aimed at licenced wildlife rehabilitators but anyone interested in these incredible birds, will enjoy listening to Enric Fusté.

As one of the worlds leading specialists in the care of swifts, Enric's webinar is not to be missed.

Email [email protected] to register.

19/05/2023

Well that's another 2 bats released on Wednesday, one from Foxford and one from Rappa Castle. One robin fledgling released today too. He's been flying around in the bat flight cage to get fit and strong. Life's good! 🦇🦇🪶💜💜💜

26/03/2023

11/03/2023

Hate these things!

Perhaps a suitable image people can share to make the public aware that flypaper can kill bats, and not in a quick way but a long agonising traumatic end to their lives as they starve to death trying to struggle to get free.

If people must use flypaper please use one enclosed in mesh.

07/03/2023

3 bats so far already this year, unfortunately one of them had to be put to sleep. The other two are feeding and doing well. Roll on the warmer weather when they can be released. 🦇💜🦇💜🦇💜

28/02/2023

Watch RTÉ 1 tonight at 7:30pm when Anna Collins of Bat Conservation Ireland takes other bat enthusiasts to the Linear Park in Newbridge on the Liffey.

23/12/2022

If you find a bat in need of help, don't wait to notify a rehabber, get in touch with your nearest one as soon as possible by using the Irish Wildlife Matters rehabber list here

Rehabilitators Posted on 4 January 2022 | by admin Important: This list does not constitute an endorsement by WRI of the listed Rehabilitators or the information and services they offer. All Rehabilitators must hold a licence from the National Parks and Wildlife Service for animals in their care. If...

02/12/2022

Did you know that bats are a part of an exclusive group of animals that can use their ventricular folds for communication? 🦇🦇

In humans, the low frequency growl that the ventricular folds or “false vocal chords” make can be found in death metal and Tuvan throat singing! 🎶🎤
Bats boast 7 vocal octaves from the ultrasonic chirps they use for echolocation all the way to the low growls that they use to greet each other. 🎤🦇🤘

Read the article here:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/29/bats-are-the-death-metal-sin
gers-of-the-animal-world-research-shows

Keep bat metal alive in our skies! Donate to our annual Giving Campaign here 🤘:
https://www.lubee.org/givingcampaign

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25/10/2022

26/09/2022

4 bat pups released on Saturday evening, there were already other Soprano Pipistrelles foraging around the release site. Off to live life to the full as free bats!