Social calls of the Common noctule (Nyctalus noctula)
Type A social calls emitted from within the roost. Two bats were seen leaving the roost afterwards about 5 and 10 minutes after sundown.



Date of recording: 2025-09-16 Recorded by: Saskia Verberne Audio file: 1040664 Photo by: Saskia Verberne
Type C.d (male advertisement) social calls of a common noctule accompanied by a few type D contact calls.



Date of recording: 2025-08-16 Recorded by: Sarah Mahie Audio file: 1029576
These social calls of the common noctule, the first of 2025, were recorded in a forrest:








Date of recording: 2025-06-19 Recorded by: Douwe van der Wijk Audio file: 1007687
Recorded in a forrest. The bats were seen flying above a small open patch between the trees and emitted type C socials calls only. Most identifyable common noctule echolocation calls are present in recording 1009263 (peak frequency lower than 20 kHz).








All recordings are licensed under the following Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 license and in courtesy of Sarah Mahie.
All sonograms are screenshots of the recordings imported in the ultrasound analysis software BatExplorer 2.2 (Elekon, Switzerland).
Bibliography:
- Jon Russ (2021). Bat Calls of Britain and Europe: a Guide to Species Identification. Pelagic Publishing.
- Neil Middleton, Andrew Froud and Keith French (2022). Social Calls of the Bats of Britain and Ireland (second edition). Pelagic Publishing.
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