Surveying for bats

New to bat surveying? This course provides an overview of why and how to survey for bats.

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome
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2. Course overview
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3. Slides and handouts
1. Part 1 overview
1. Legislation overview
2. Offences
3. Penalties
4. Designated sites
5. Other Acts of Parliament
6. Legislation re-cap quiz
1. Licences
2. The three tests
3. Licences re-cap quiz
1. Planning process
2. Planning policy
3. Planning re-cap quiz
1. The need for survey
2. Proportionality
3. Impact
4. The need for survey re-cap quiz
1. What is the question?
2. Survey types
3. Survey guidance
4. Seasonality, resources & limitations
5. Survey design re-cap quiz
1. Health and safety legislation
2. Insurance
3. Biosecurity
4. Health & safety re-cap quiz
1. Part 2 overview
1. Preliminary Ecological Assessment
2. PEA re-cap quiz
3. Habitat suitability
1. PRA
2. Roosting requirements
3. Roofs
4. Walls
5. Change
6. Bat roost suitability
7. Other structures
8. Hibernation
9. Habitat around the roost
10. Field signs - bats
11. Field signs - droppings
12. Field signs - feedings remains and urine
13. PRA re-cap quiz
1. Bat detectors
2. Bat emergence surveys
3. Bat activity surveys
4. Night-time Bat Walkover (NBW) surveys
5. Static detector surveys
6. Vantage point surveys
7. Back-tracking surveys
8. Swarming surveys
9. Bat detector re-cap quiz
1. Surveying trees
2. Ground Level Tree Assessment (GLTA)
3. Potential Roost Feature inspection
4. Presence/absence surveys
5. Surveying tree re-cap quiz
1. Catching bats
2. Catching techniques and equipment
3. Planning catching surveys
4. Natural England class licence
5. Tagging bats
6. Licence for tagging bats
7. Marking bats
8. Licence for marking bats
9. Advanced survey techniques
10. CTT BluBat - live data
1. Data
1. Questions?
2. Feedback
1. Assessment intro
2. Assessment
3. What's next?
1. Re-assessment intro
2. Re-assessment
3. What's next?

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£150.00
79 lessons
6 hours of video content

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Surveying for bats

Course curriculum

Welcome

Part 1 - Background

Legislation summary

Licences

Planning

The need for survey

Survey design

Health & safety

Part 2 - Surveys

Preliminary Ecological Appraisal

Preliminary Roost Assessment

Bat detector surveys

Surveying trees

Advanced survey techniques

Data

Questions and feedback

Assessment

Re-assessment

About this course

Discover how to survey for bats