Bats in Churches
August 20, 2024 11:57 PM Subscribe
The Bats in Churches project in the UK has a YouTube channel. This video (57.16, subtitles, transcript) is a good introduction to the project, talking about ecology and heritage, and with a case study of a church in Cambridgeshire. Other videos include a short case study of a church in Bedfordshire (3.53, subtitles, transcript); Understanding Bats through their DNA (48.28, transcript); Church Wall Paintings (58.02, subtitles, transcript); Bats in Sacred Spaces internationally (1:12:19, transcript); and an interview with Peter Ross, who wrote Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church (58.19, transcript). The Guardian wrote about Bats in Churches in 2023.
A related link: Nils Bouillard, one of the speakers in the Bats in Sacred Spaces video, is interviewed about his Big Bat Year and bat tourism here.
A related link: Nils Bouillard, one of the speakers in the Bats in Sacred Spaces video, is interviewed about his Big Bat Year and bat tourism here.
This was such a neat post! Makes me want to live near a church just so I can see lil' pipistrelles. I'm an atheist, but I'd go to church just to meet the vicar and the congregation. Most vicars I've heard speaking seem like nice folks*. Surely, they must be if they like bats!
The Western Smallfoot commonly roosts in lava tubes and caves. There are quite a few in places where I ride, and I used to see them out in the desert coming home at dusk. We also used to see bats over the house, but no more. Another loss.
*Please let me keep my fairytale if not. In my reading, Brit Anglicans seem to be such nice people. (Apart from the occasional murder-y ones)
posted by BlueHorse at 6:56 PM on August 21 [2 favorites]
The Western Smallfoot commonly roosts in lava tubes and caves. There are quite a few in places where I ride, and I used to see them out in the desert coming home at dusk. We also used to see bats over the house, but no more. Another loss.
*Please let me keep my fairytale if not. In my reading, Brit Anglicans seem to be such nice people. (Apart from the occasional murder-y ones)
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