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Rare bat species found in Kent - News - Bat Conservation Trust (www.bats.org.uk)

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Ecologist Sally-Ann Hurry from Mountfield Ecology was commissioned by Tarmac to carry out a bat assessment of a property near Rochester in Kent. The results of this assessment would inform how bats needed to be considered in the proposed maintenance and repair work.

During the building inspection, a small number of bat droppings were found within the roof void. Sally-Ann collected a sample of the most recent droppings and submitted them to Ecotype Genetics for DNA sequencing, which would confirm to which bat species they belonged to.

The results came in and, to everyone’s surprise, they were identified as belonging to the rare grey long-eared bat! To be absolutely certain of this result, the sample was re-tested and the results came back the same. The bat droppings in this Rochester property were definitely from a grey long-eared bat. This species is currently listed as Endangered in the IUCN Red List for British Mammals,

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