Pipistrelle Bat

This is a quick film of me out with my bat detector. Each bat makes a sound using a different frequency. The bat detector tells you what frequency the sound is which helps you identify the bat, this bat was a Pipistrelle.

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Pipistrelle Bat (Pipistrellus pipistrellus)
This is the commonest bat in the uk and also the smallest. Its flight is quite jerky and it hunts quite close to the ground. Bats eat small flying insects. The Pipistrelle has recently been noticed as two different species (common pipistrelle and soprano pipistrelle). You can tell them apart using a bat detector. The frequency of a common pipistrelle is 45kHz and the frequency of a soprano pipistrelle is 55kHz. The bat in this film is a common pipistrelle. When we were on holiday in Scotland the bat flying around our house then was a soprano pipistrelle.