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Bat Detective Book + Audio CD
A Field Guide for Bat Detection


Price: £19.95

Bat Detective CD and Book

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Customers who bought the Bat Detective Book + CD also purchased:
British Bats ID Chart


Description: An excellent guide to identifying the calls of British bats. It's an ideal reference for the beginner, and highly recommended if you've just purchased your first detector, or if you're looking to improve your skills in identifying the sounds made by British bats.

In addition to the book there's a 48 track CD which features the echolocation calls of 13 species as heard through a bat detector. Species featured are;
Noctule, Pipistrelle, Serotine, Leisler's, Long-eared bats, Whiskered, Brandt's, Daubenton's, Natterer's, Barbastelle, Bechstein's, Greater horseshoe and Lesser horseshoe.

Book Chapters:

About bats
Right from the beginning
Why do they fly like that?
Wing shape and behaviour
Physics of sound and the jargon
Describing bat ultrasound
Vibrations in a call
Methods of detecting ultrasonic calls
Interpreting the sounds of the heterodyne detector
Use headphones
The zero point
Individual species accounts
Foraging styles
Getting started
A bat detector survey
Summary Charts


Customer Comment:

"I recommend the bat book and CD. Useful combination of the science behind detectors but with some common sense 
advice for using one. Good to read before you buy a bat detector as well as afterwards" - Graham, West Sussex.


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