Bats in Backyards

Welcome to Bats in Backyards!

Survey insect-eating bats on your property and contribute valuable data to help inform the conservation of these cryptic animals.

Insect-eating bats play a critical role in our ecosystem by eating and helping to control insects like cockroaches, mosquitoes, and agricultural pests.

However, insect-eating bats in New South Wales are in decline. They are under threat from habitat loss, human activities and climate change. Of the 34 species in New South Wales, 18 are listed as threatened or are thought to be extinct.

Bats in Backyards (BiBs) is a citizen science program contributing valuable data to help save some of New South Wales's rarest insect-eating bats from extinction.

With large gaps in the known habitat requirements and distribution of these threatened species, we need to learn more to better protect them.

The BiB program team will process all audio data to identify calls made by bat species in each of the study regions. The results will be uploaded to NatureMapr upon which participants will be notified.