The Kent Bat Group has been working to help protect the county's bats and learn more about them since 1983. Sixteen of Britain's 18 resident bat species have since been recorded in Kent.
Bechstein's bat, one of the UK's rarest mammals, was first found in Kent, hibernating, in 2001. A lactating female was recorded in 2009 in canopy oak woodland in West Kent. Subsequently several maternity tree roosts were discovered in 2012 in the same vicinity. Bechstein’s is rare partly through lack of canopy oak woodland in Kent being an old growth woodland specialist.
Any bat found out during the daytime or on the ground usually needs help.
Do you have a roost in your neighbourhood, or regularly see bats flying and feeding?
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Kent Bat Group is a registered charity
(No. 1079767) and a partner group to
The Bat Conservation Trust (BCT)
