US EditionHow Europe's largest bat catches and eats birds mid-air
Researchers used biologging on 14 bats to document 23-minute continuous flight feeding and precise hunting of migratory songbirds, revealing unique aerial predation adaptations.
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Bats hunt and eat songbirds mid-flight
Bat with tag. Credit: Elena Tena Europe’s largest bat species, the greater noctule (Nyctalus lasiopterus), has been caught red-handed terrorising songbirds in the night sky above southern Spain. High-resolution biologging tags affixed to the backs of 14 bats to record their 3-dimensional movements, acceleration, altitude and sounds documented 2 of the predators as they attempted to catch migrating songbirds for their next meal. One was successfu…
How Europe's largest bat catches and eats birds mid-air
After nearly 25 years of research, the mystery has finally been solved: Europe's largest bat doesn't just eat small birds—it hunts and captures them more than a kilometer above the ground. And it eats them without landing.
They catch for the first time a bat swallowing a bird while flying at high altitude thanks to devices that allow audio recording. The attack of this large node on a European robin has confirmed the theory that they can hunt and eat birds in full flight. Read
After decades of attempts, a team led by the Doñana Biological Station has managed to record the sound of a large node predating a European robin in the air
Europe’s Largest Bats Hunt and Consume Migrating Birds Mid-Flight High
In a groundbreaking exploration of predatory behavior among European bats, a team of scientists has unveiled the remarkable hunting strategies of the greater noctule bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus), Europe’s largest bat species. This research brings to light the extraordinary ability of these bats to capture, kill, and consume nocturnally migrating passerine birds mid-flight, high above the […]
Researchers at the Doñana Biological Station and the University of Aarhus reveal for the first time how this European bat locates and captures small birds during its night flight A giant impact revealed the secrets of the interior of the Lun
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