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Social Calls, Distress Calls and Feeding Buzzes of European Bats
| Species |
Call
type |
Recording site |
Recordist |
Original |
Noise reduced version |
Synthe
-sized version |
| Barbastella barbastellus |
S |
France |
Danielle Linton |
 |
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| Barbastella barbastellus |
D |
Great Britain |
Jon Russ |
|
|
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| Barbastella barbastellus |
D |
Bulgaria |
Matthias Gttsche |
|
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| Eptesicus nilssonii |
D |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
|
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| Eptesicus nilssonii |
S |
Norway |
Tore Chr Michaelsen
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| Eptesicus serotinus |
D |
Great Britain |
Jon Russ |
|
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| Miniopterus schreibersii |
D |
Bulgaria |
Matthias Gttsche |
|
|
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| Myotis bechsteinii |
D |
Great Britain |
Jon Russ |
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| Myotis bechsteinii |
D |
Great Britain |
Jon Russ |
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| Myotis bechsteinii |
S juv |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
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| Myotis bechsteinii |
S |
|
synthesized |
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| Myotis bechsteinii |
D |
Bulgaria |
Matthias Gttsche |
|
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| Myotis brandtii |
D |
Great Britain |
Jon Russ |
|
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| Myotis capaccinii |
D |
Bulgaria |
Matthias Gttsche |
|
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| Myotis dasycneme |
D |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
|
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| Myotis dasycneme |
D |
Germany |
Matthias Gttsche |
|
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| Myotis daubentonii |
D |
Great Britain |
Jon Russ |
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| Myotis daubentonii |
D |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
|
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| Myotis myotis |
D |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
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| Myotis myotis |
S juv |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
|
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| Myotis myotis |
D |
Bulgaria |
Matthias Gttsche |
|
|
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| Myotis mystacinus |
D |
Great Britain |
Jon Russ |
|
|
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| Myotis mystacinus |
D |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
|
|
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| Myotis nattereri |
S |
Great Britain |
Danielle Linton |
|
|
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| Myotis nattereri |
D |
Great Britain |
Jon Russ |
|
|
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| Nyctalus leisleri |
S |
Great Britain |
Danielle Linton |
|
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| Nyctalus leisleri |
S juv |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
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| Nyctalus leisleri |
S juv |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
|
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| Nyctalus leisleri |
D |
Bulgaria |
Matthias Gttsche |
|
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| Nyctalus noctula |
F |
Germany |
Raimund Specht |
|
|
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| Nyctalus noctula |
S |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
|
|
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| Nyctalus noctula |
S |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
|
|
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| Nyctalus noctula |
D |
Germany |
Matthias Gttsche |
|
|
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| Nyctalus noctula |
D |
Germany |
Ulf Rahmel |
|
|
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| Pipistrellus kuhlii |
S |
Spain |
Guido Pfalzer |
|
|
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| Pipistrellus kuhlii |
S |
Spain |
Guido Pfalzer |
|
|
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| Pipistrellus natusii |
S |
Ireland |
Jon Russ |
|
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| Pipistrellus natusii |
S |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
|
|
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| Pipistrellus natusii |
D |
Germany |
Matthias Gttsche |
|
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| Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
S |
Germany |
Raimund Specht |
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| Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
S |
Great Britain |
Danielle Linton |
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| Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
F |
Germany |
Raimund Specht |
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| Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
S |
Great Britain |
Jon Russ |
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| Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
S juv |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
|
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| Pipistrellus pygmaeus |
F |
Germany |
Raimund Specht |
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| Pipistrellus pygmaeus |
S |
Great Britain |
Jon Russ |
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| Pipistrellus pygmaeus |
S |
Great Britain |
Jon Russ |
|
|
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| Pipistrellus pygmaeus |
S |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
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| Pipistrellus pygmaeus |
S juv |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
|
|
|
Pipistrellus pygmaeus |
D |
Germany |
Matthias Gttsche |
|
|
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| Plecotus auritus |
D |
Germany |
Matthias Gttsche |
|
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| Plecotus austriacus |
D |
Bulgaria |
Matthias Gttsche |
|
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| Rhinolophus blasii |
D |
Bulgaria |
Matthias Gttsche |
|
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| Rhinolophus euryale |
D |
Bulgaria |
Matthias Gttsche |
|
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| Rhinolophus ferrumequinum |
D |
Great Britain |
Jon Russ |
|
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| Rhinolophus hipposideros |
D |
Bulgaria |
Matthias Gttsche |
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| Rhinolophus mehelyi |
D |
Bulgaria |
Matthias Gttsche |
|
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| Vespertilio murinus |
S |
Germany |
Guido Pfalzer |
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| Vespertilio murinus |
S |
Germany |
Raimund Specht |
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The noise-reduced and re-synthesized file versions were created in Avisoft-SASLab Pro.
Call Types : 'S' = social (advertizing) call , 'D' = distress call, 'F' = feeding buzz
Download the desired .wav files by right-clicking at the disk icon and select the popup menu item "Save Link As..." or download the ZIP archive.
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All recordings are copyrighted by the individuals mentioned on the column titled 'Recordist'. If you wish to use these recordings for other purposes than playback through the Avisoft-UltraSoundGate Player or Avisoft-RECORDER software, you are requested to ask these individuals for permission.
If you wish to contribute your own (time-expanded) recordings to this public bat call resource, please contact info batcalls.com.
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Links
Avisoft Bioacoustics bat sound recordings
ecoObs provides reference echolocation calls of various European bats
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Further Reading / Literaturhinweise
Gerald G. Carter, Mark D. Skowronski, Paul A. Faure and Brock Fenton:
Antiphonal calling allows individual discrimination in white-winged vampire bats. Animal Behaviour. 2008.
Dina K. N. Dechmann, Silke L. Heucke, Luca Giuggioli, Kamran Safi, Christian C. Voigt and Martin Wikelski:
Experimental evidence for group hunting via eavesdropping in echolocating bats. Proceedings of the Royal Society. 2009.
Erin Gillam:
Eavesdropping by bats on the feeding buzzes of conspecifics. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 2007.
Joanna Furmankiewicz, J. Ruczynski, R. Urban, G. Jones:
Social Calls Provide Tree-dwelling Bats with Information about the Location of Conspecifics at Roosts
. Ethology. 2011.
David A. Hill and Frank Greenaway:
Effectiveness of an acoustic lure for surveying bats in British woodlands (Sussex AutoBat system). Mammal Review. Mammal Society/Blackwell Publishing. 2005.
Gloriana Chaverri, Erin H. Gillam and Maarten J. Vonhof:
Social calls used by a leaf-roosting bat to signal location. Biology Letters. 2010.
Guido Pfalzer:
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