Ideal for use by you as a summer roost or nursery. The box can open and is easy to inspect by licenced bat workers for conservation studies and other research.
To compensate for fluctuations in temperature in spring and autumn, the 1FF is provided with a roughened rear panel made of hard-wearing wood. Depending on their individual temperature requirements, the animals can choose between the cooler wood concrete or the warmer wooden panel.
Key Features:
- Large, popular, and practical
- Colonial bats can use the box as a roost or nursery
- Maintenance-free
- Suitable for inaccessible areas (steep slopes, house walls)
- The entire front of this box can be swung open for inspection.
Accessory: Schwegler Hanger for Bat Boxes 16148
Why do we need to protect bats?
Bats play an important role within our environment. As well as performing some pollination, bats are a natural control of insect populations as these are their main food source. Bats are also a good indicator species of environmental health, with changes in populations reflecting local biodiversity.
Bats are a schedule 1 protected species under the Wildlife & Countryside Act. It is illegal for any member of the public to disturb a roost, handle or kill any bat. Bat boxes therefore may only be inspected by a licensed bat worker. However, you can monitor your bat box without disturbance, look for mouse-sized droppings beneath the box as a clue to occupation or observe from a distance at dusk to see if bats are exiting the box to hunt.
MATERIAL: Woodcrete
DIMENSIONS (MM): 270 x 430 x 140
ENTRANCE: 120 x 240
WEIGHT (KG): 9
INCLUDES: Box, hanger, and aluminium nail.
SPECIES: The vertical and horizontal narrowing of the box makes it very suitable for all crevice-inhabiting Bat species, such as pipistrelle and noctule bats. It offers the animals optimum interior depth wherever it is hung up, i.e. back contact on and with the wood or wood concrete on the inside.
SITING: This box has proved highly effective under practical conditions everywhere, in gardens and forests as well as on urban buildings and balconies, and is best positioned at a height of between 4 to 6 metres.
Thanks to the central fixing only a nail or screw is required to fix the box securely in position; an added advantage on lightweight panel walls or in rented accommodation. There is a radial recess at the rear that enables good and steady installation on masts or tree trunks. Thanks to its additional four support points it can also be attached securely to houses, garages, towers, hunting hides, and walls.
MAINTENANCE: The box is open at the bottom, allowing droppings to fall out so it does not need cleaning
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