A specialist intensive course for professionals owning or managingwoodlands/trees or merely wanting to survey trees or woodlands for bats.
Following on from the highly successful course run in 2002 and by
demand extended to three days
Venue: NT Holnicote Estate Somerset
Accommodation: Lorna Doone Hotel Porlock
Duration: Tuesday evening - Friday afternoon
Course tutors: Geoff Billington & John Altringham
Assistant leaders: Three experienced fieldworkers
Additional lectures: English Nature, National Trust Forester and NationalTrust
Manager
A specialist intensive course for professionals owning or managing
woodlands/trees or merely wanting to survey trees or woodlands for
bats.
Program will include the following & lots more!
- Ecology & Biology of woodland bats including case studies
- How to survey and assess trees/woodlands for bats presenting all the survey techniques/strategies
available
- Mitigation
- The law and statutory designations
- Site visits to bat roosts in trees
- Barbastelle field roost survey
- Participants will be given practical experience of how to survey &
assess trees, woodland areas and in night survey techniques
- Habitat assessment and use of aerial photographs
- Sound analysis
- Use of specialist viewing/inspection & night vision equipment,
bat detector systems, recording systems etc.
A special feature of this course will be interactive teaching,
course handouts will be circulated in advance and the advance feedback
of interests/demands will allow for tailoring of course content/time
allocation to maximise learning/interest.
To register an interest and to receive further details please email
me geoff@npennines.fsnet.co.uk
Geoff Billington Greena Ecological Consultancy
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