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They will use specialist acoustic bat monitoring equipment to help nature enthusiasts identify the species of bats through sound, including the Common Pipistrelle, Noctules, Brown Long-Eared and Myotis bats.

Noctules have narrow, pointy wings, and fly in straight lines high in the sky.

Roost selection by noctules (Nyctalus noctula) and Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii).

Other bats found in the castle grounds included Daubenton's and noctules, the largest bat in the UK.

I wonder if noctules have ever fallen prey to these dashing little falcons before?

For 2 years, the researchers periodically took blood samples from as many giant noctules as they could catch.

nivalis), the roe deer (Capreolus), the deer (Cervus elaphus), the moose (Antes antes), the boar (Sus scrofa), the badger (Meles meles), the otter (Lutra lutra), the squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), the mountain hare or snow hare (Lepus timidus), the Balkan dormouse (Dryomys nitedula), the fat dormouse (Glis glis), the mole (Microtus oeconomus), shrews (Sorex minutissimus and Sorex caecutiens), 13 species of bats including some noctules (Nyctalus), the yellow-throated field mouse (Apodemus flavicollis), the red mole (Clethrionomys glareolus), the northern birch mouse (Sicista betulina), and the tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides), the latter an introduced species.

No other studies have compared the number of cavity openings per roost tree for these species, however Ruczynski and Bogdanowicz (2005), in a study of characteristics of tree roosts of sympatric noctules (Nyctalus noctula) and lesser noctules (N.

41 Noctules are widespread varieties of which mammal?

After considering how bats eat large, airborne beetles, Juste suspects that the greater noctules strip off a bird's wings.

Visitors may hear and see a variety of bat species including pipistrelles, which are the smallest bat species in Britain, and noctules, which are one of the largest in Britain with a wingspan that is around the same size as that of a Blackbird.