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Bats
 - Introduction
- What are bats?

- Bat 
   identification 
   key
  
-
woodland
   -
park
   -
garden
   -
water
   -
hedgerow
   -
high and 
     straight flight


- Staffordshire  
   bats

- British bats
- Echolocation
- Gardening for 
   bats

- Bat boxes
- Bats and the law
- Bats and rabies
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Staffordshire  
   Bat Group

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Help! I've found 
   a bat

- Books and links
      

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Bat Identification Key

This key is designed to help you identify the bats you see flying around in Staffordshire. It is only a basic guide as the accurate identification of many bat species can only be done 'in the hand' by examining a number of features or in conjunction with a bat detector. Why not explore the various paths of the key and see which one fits your bat best?

Where did you see the bat?

 

thumbnail image of Hem Heath Wood

thumbnail image of Central Forest Park thumbnail image of a garden thumbnail image of Westport Lake

Around woodland

In a park

Over a garden

Around water

 
thumbnail picture of a hedgerow thumbnail image of sunset in Tittensor

Around a hedgerow

Flying high, fast and straight