Reports and Publications

Bat Conservation Ireland receives funding from various State agencies and sponsors to carry out specific bat education, monitoring or other bat conservation work. Reports have been published for certain projects that Bat Conservation Ireland has been involved in.

• A factsheet on White Nose Syndrome in bats with recommended guidelines for cavers and others entering bat hibernacula
• A simple bat identification key for BATLAS 2010 volunteers using tuneable bat detectors
• A summary of the different Irish bat species
• What to do with a grounded bat
• How to make bat boxes
• Results of an investigation in to the impact of development on bat faunas, a report to The Heritage Council
• Development of a car-based bat monitoring protocol for the Republic of Ireland
• Car-based bat monitoring annual report 2006
• Car-based bat monitoring annual report 2007
• Car-based bat monitoring report, results from 2003-2008
• Proposals and recommendations for a pilot Daubenton's Bat waterway study
• Daubenton's bat monitoring annual report 2006
• A report to The Heritage Council on a survey of bridges for roosting bats in 2008
• Results from a pilot monitoring project for the brown long-eared bat, along with proposals and recommendations for further monitoring
• Results for Car-based, Daubenton's and Brown Long-eared Bat Monitoring in 2009
• Report on the bat fieldcraft workshop, Killarney 2005 (part of the Xth European Bat Research Symposium)