Development of a Car Survey Monitoring Protocall for Ireland

Development of a Car Survey Monitoring Protocall for Ireland

Natural Heritage & Biodiversity /

The Heritage Council asked the Bat Conservation Trust to develop and evaluate a novel bat detector-based monitoring project for Ireland.

Fifteen volunteers surveyed eight survey routes, five of which were repeated. Volunteers contributed 85 hours on the survey. The mean number of encounter rates (per km) for each species/species group were: common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) = 1.94, soprano pipistrelle (P. pygmaeus) = 0.75, Leisler’s bat (Nyctalus leisleri) = 0.46 and Myotis sp = 0.06.

  • Published by: The Heritage Council
  • Author(s): Dr Colin Catto, Dr Jon Russ, Steve Langton
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