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All about Britain's best-loved night-flying mammal

Batty about bats? You're in the right place. UK bats are harmless insect-eaters, flying furballs with ultrasonic hearing that use echolocation. This wildlife is wild!

Bat facts

• There are 18 species of bat recorded in Britain. Of these species, 17 are known to breed here.
• The bats you are most likely to see in the UK are the soprano pipistrelle, common pipistrelle and brown long-eared bat.
• All the UK bat species are insectivorous. A single common pipistrelle bat (one of our smallest species) can eat more than 3,000 midges in a night!
• Noctule bats prefer to roost in trees but don't like tunnels. Natterer's, common pipistrelle, soprano pipistrelle and brown long-eared bats can be found both in trees and structures (such as buildings and tunnels).
• Bats are protected by European and UK legislation. They are European Protected Species but are also protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.

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