The Bat Book (Conservation for Kids)

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In summary, I found The Bat to be a welcome summer read -- engaging and difficult to put down. Definitely recommended for current and future fans of Harry Hole alike. I'm looking forward to reading more books in the series. To treat an ailment of the feet, a physician would consult the night sky with respect to the position of Pisces. Calculating the celestial positions and the relevant time, place, and manner to incise the patient’s vein would require interpreting various charts in the manuscript. Provided very useful, and easy to understand descriptions of the properties of sound. The Author did a wonderful job of clearly explaining the various facets of sound, along with the "how's and why's"of bat calls. A Norwegian girl is found brutally murdered, and the Australian police send for a Norwegian policeman to pacify the country's Embassy. Knowing how to manipulate such a manuscript and read its complex diagrams would certainly have impressed the patient and establish a power and knowledge difference between doctor and patient. The manuscript would not only have aided the surgeon in his calculations, but also served to demonstrate his expertise, a little like today’s white lab coat and stethoscope.

The book includes a very simple index of species pictured in the book. There are no additional links or resources included. It is the first time legislation and planning policy have been reviewed and put to practical use to define an analysis framework with clearly identifiable thresholds for action. Yet, despite its efficacy in a professional context, it is also the first time a guide has been produced that is equally effective in achieving its objective for amateurs. I loved this pattern in The Redbreast, Nemesis and The Devil's Star but was growing a wee bit tired of it by The Snowman& The Leopard. (I would HIGHLY recommend those first three though.)

I do not want to be unfair to the saga because this is the first book, but I do not want anything to continue with it. Like many it was the adaptation of 'The Snowman' that alerted me to these stories, but that's the 7th book in the series. Bats can’t launch off into flight like birds do, so instead they climb to a high point, hang upside down, and fall into flight.

I think its telling that the first two books were the last to be translated, but there's promising signs that I'm going to love the rest of the series and enjoyed many aspects of this debut. Bats make the world a better place, making this nature book for kids an essential tool in encouraging the protection of bats for generations to come. Following on from The Bee Book and The Sea Book, Charlotte Milner continues to highlight critical ecological issues faced by our planet. The Bat Book is perfect for teaching little animal-lovers all about these clever creatures who do so much for our world. The opening chapter explains the physics of sound, how bats generate ultrasound and use it to interpret the world around them, to locate and catch insects, and to communicate with each other, whether it be "advertisement calls" (looking for a mate), defending a feeding area or distress calls. Next comes a look at the equipment needed. Here, the technically challenged among us might hesitate a little, but the three main types of bat detector – heterodyne, frequency division, and time expansion – are clearly described, including the advantages and disadvantages of each, and which is most appropriate for different situations. Recording bat calls is an essential element of bat surveys and research projects, and the next chapter explains how to record sound, different recording formats, sound recording devices and recording levels. Armed with the correct equipment, the next stage is to analyse the calls recorded, and this is where sonograms, oscillograms and power spectra come in. There is a growing range of sound analysis software now available to process the calls recorded so that they can be measured, compared and identified. This chapter guides us through the process of selecting calls for analysis, determine the call shape and call parameter and from this, how to identify the species. Finally, there is a useful species echolocation guide designed to indicate a possible species, based on echolocation call shape and the frequency. Jo Nesbo – I am glad some publisher somewhere saw the potential in your writing – I did enjoy your other books in this series but think that the publisher did me a favour by not translating this first novel of the series any sooner – if I hadn't read this book at all I would be perfectly happy and not felt as if I had been cheated of a potentially great read.Jon is the Director of Ridgeway Ecology, a specialist bat consultancy, and has worked for a number of years for the Bat Conservation Trust coordinating the iBats project in the UK and Eastern Europe. After nearly twenty years involvement in bat research and conservation he continues to be fascinated by these remarkable mammals.

Bat identification to a particular species through the analysis of calls is not always straightforward, as Jon Russ warns. Some species have calls that are similar in structure, social calls may be very variable even within a species, and cluttered environments can distort call recordings. But armed with this practical little book, researchers, surveyors and amateurs can go out into the night with the benefit of the knowledge and experience built up over the years by Russ and his colleagues." Knowledge of bat echolocation, calls and identification using bat detectors and programs such as BatSound has grown significantly in the last decade. In this practical guide Jon Russ and contributors (Kate Barlow, Philip Briggs & Sandie Sowler) present the latest data in a clear and concise manner. Really cute bats decorate easy to digest bat facts in the style I expect from DK books. At 34, I still get a warm feeling from DK books, knowing there will be cool pictures and I would have to hunt around to make sure I read every single fact and not miss some little detail (and inevitably you would miss something, making rereading a lot of fun). It's nice to see that you can still get what you expect with kid's nonfiction and DK. And finally the last portion of the book that I truly enjoyed was the part about how to help books. There is a kind of recipe for bat seed balls to help wild flowers grow that attract bats or their prey as well as how to make a bat garden. These are two wonderful ideas I would love to try out when I have my own house.

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. British Bats was first published in 2003. Harry, the foreigner, is teamed with another outsider, a senior aboriginal detective, and together they make inroads into the mystery killing. But it seems his fellow policeman knows rather more than he is willing to reveal. During the times that he is halfway sober he continues to investigate the serial killings and the death of Andrew Kensington. The more he finds out about Kensington the more secrets that are revealed. These shrouded bits of information lead to more secrets and many of them seem to involve a friend of Andrews, a German gay man named Otto. He is a friendly chap and Harry soon learns just how friendly. Bat Book? Yes, please, thankyouverymuch. I wanted to boop all the snoots in this edifying, vital book of batty bat friends. Milner is abundantly clear about the fact that Earth and all things living on it depend upon pollinators. As in, they are essential to life continuing, and she generously drives this home. It's a very approachable book that can be easily read in a classroom or as a bedtime story or anytime ever, because ohmygoodness, I am in utter love with bats and biased. But for those who are frightened by photos of said mammals, Milner goes with the route of pretty illustrations, as well as debunking myths in the hopes to alleviate said irrational fear. She states that bats don't get the credit they deserve and then goes above and beyond to properly give said well deserved credit, from reforestation, pollination, and protection of crops (and thus, less nasty pesticides). In British Bats, John Altringham discusses all the different aspects of the natural history of bats, from their origins and evolution to their behaviour, feeding habits and reproduction. He also discusses the threats to the survival of bats, and how we are working to conserve them. Finally, he gives an account of how to watch and study bats in the wild.