Social calls of the Nathusius' pipistrelle (Pipistrellus nathusii)

Recordings from 2026

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Read more about how I categorized the unusual social calls of the Nathusius's pipistrelle in this blog post.
A collection of the part A0, D0 and E motifs of the type D social call of the Nathusius' pipistrelle can be found on this page.

The first part D and part E motifs of this year were recorded when two Nathusius' pipistrelles were participating in social behaviour, emitting lots of social calls.

Date of recording: 2026-04-21          Recorded by: Sander Boersma          Audio file: 1105972 

All recordings are licensed under the following Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 license and in courtesy of Sarah Mahie.
All the original video footage can be found on our Youtube channel: United by Ecology
All sonograms are screenshots of the recordings imported in the ultrasound analysis software BatExplorer 2.2 (Elekon, Switzerland). 

 

Literature list:

- Daniel Hargreaves, Helena Jahelkova, Oliver Lindecke and Guido Reiter (2017). Bat Species of the Year 2015: Nathusius’ pipistrelle (Pipistrellus nathusii). Facts compiled for BatLife Europe.

- Helena Jahelková (2011). Unusual social calls of Nathusius' pipistrelle (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) recorded outside the mating season. Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences. Folia Zoologica, 60(1): 25-30. https://doi.org/10.25225/fozo.v60.i1.a4.2011

- Jon Russ and Paul Racey (2007). Species-specificity and individual variation in the song of male Nathusius’ pipistrelles (Pipistrellus nathusii). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61(5): 669-677. DOI:10.1007/s00265-006-0295-9

- Jon Russ (2021). Bat Calls of Britain and Europe: a Guide to Species Identification. Pelagic Publishing. 

- Niel Middleton (2020). Is That a Bat? A guide to non-bat sounds encountered during bat surveys. Pelagic Publishing.

- Neil Middleton, Andrew Froud and Keith French (2022). Social Calls of the Bats of Britain and Ireland (second edition). Pelagic Publishing.

- Stuart Newson, Neil Middleton and Huma Pearce (2020). The acoustic identification of small terrestrial mammals in Britain. British Wildlife. 32(3).