The wet, wooded habitat on the common is important to lesser horseshoe bats - one of the smallest in the UK - as a foraging area. Development officer Jodi Hibbard said people had been "shocked and ...

They are the smallest and most common bat in the UK, measuring between 3.5 and 4.5cm in length. Despite their size, they can easily eat 3,000 insects per night which they catch in flight using sonar.

If you are lucky, or know where to look, you might have seen at least one of the UK’s 18 species of ... for to identify five of our most common species, including echolocation calls (high-pitched ...