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Daubenton's Bat, myotis daubentoni, adult, flying over water (c) Dale Sutton/2020vision

Herefordshire Bats

The Herefordshire Bat Atlas 1960 - 2025

Produced by Denise Plume and Dr David Lee.

In the UK, 17 species of bats are known to breed and 16 of these have been recorded in Herefordshire. This third edition of the Herefordshire Bat Atlas – updated to 2025 - gives a comprehensive review of each species: identification, roost and feeding habits and distribution in Herefordshire.  

The Atlas has been created using a total of 38,997 records taken from the Herefordshire Biological Records Centre (HBRC), National Biodiversity Network Gateway (NBN), and records collected from projects run by the authors.  

Document cover with central image of a map of southern UK with Herefordshire outlined in red and black and white image of a bat in top left corner

Herefordshire Bat Atlas 1960 to 2025, 3rd Edition, cover image

Producing the Herefordshire Bat Atlas

You may also be interested to read the article about the Herefordshire Bat Atlas titled The State of Herefordshire Bats: Producing the Herefordshire Bat Atlas - 2014 to 2020 by Denise Foster and David Lee, published in Volume Two of British Islands Bats (starting on Page 43).  

The article informs about the projects they undertook to enable them to collect the records for the county.  Volumes 3 and 5 of British Island Bats also includes articles about their other project work within the county such as the Bats and Swifts in Churches Project, the Herefordshire Bat Project and the Bird Box project which is based at six Herefordshire Wildlife Trust woodland reserves. 

https://www.bats.org.uk/resources/accessing-journal-papers/british-islands-bats

 

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