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The Bats of Egrove Park (part 2): Daubentons and Barbastelles

The first part of the this blog series can be found here. A previous blog describes how in the summer of 2025 I spent time at Egrove Park, discovering how the site is used by an impressive diversity of bats. This blog provides more detail on usage of the site by two specific species: Daubenton’s…
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Reflecting on Bats over Water

Pun intended. It’s common to see bright and dark bands in spectrograms of bats flying close to reflective surfaces. Typically, they are seen with Daubenton’s bats flying low over water, but can also seen with any bat species flying near a reflective surface, when the resulting echo overlaps the original chirp. The explanation is straightforward.…
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Adaptive Beamforming for Directional Bat Detection

Adaptive beamforming favours sounds from a particular direction, while reducing sounds from other directions. The favoured direction is tracked dynamically based on the the source of the loudest sound. This has clear potential for improving the quality of bat recordings.