The Norfolk Bat Group is a voluntaray wildlife conservation group
focussing on the conservation of wild bats within the English county of
Norfolk. The Norfolk group were first formed in 1961 and were the first
of the present day ninety county based bat groups in the UK.
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Thetford Forest
News page update Sunday September 12th 1998.
There are almost 600 bat boxes on pine trees in the Thetford Forest area
which straddles the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. These are checked for
bats four or five times each year by licenced members of the Norfolk Bat
Group, the Suffolk Bat Group and The Bob Stebbings Consultancy. This morning
- a very wet and windy one produced relatively few bats, but it did include
Pipistrelles, Noctules, Brown Long-eared and 3 Leislers Bats - four species.
Two of these bats - a male and a female Leislers were sharing one box in
Warren Wood, near Thetford, well into Norfolk. So often this species has
confined its attention to areas of Suffolk, but has now been recorded for
the county - mostly singly in bat boxes - on five occasions now.
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