What kind of bats are these? Currently (July 15th 2003) in Jølster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. E-mail us!
Bat 1. Was alive and flying most of the time. Settled on a door for a bit so I managed to snatch these pictures.
I reckon the wingspan is about the same as the length of a sheet of A4 paper but no more than that. Having listened to some recordings I've made of the bat's activity, it (I presume it's the bat in the photos) sometimes makes a high pitched "chick" sound ..... almost like a bird and when played an octave lower, it almost sounds like a "glock". Click here to hear mp3 files of sounds (some slowed down and most with plenty of background noise which is, at the moment, unavoidable) recorded onto Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) using an AKG C1000s studio condenser microphone.
Bat 2. This was found as, I presume, a young corpse.
