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Social Calls, Distress Calls and Feeding Buzzes of European Bats

Updated: 2018-07-11, 11:30

Species (scientific name)	English name	Call type	Recording site	Original recording	Noise reduced version in SAS Lab Pro	Synthesized version	Version for playback in LunaLure UMP-1 and UMP-2	Version for playback only in LunaLure UMP-2
Barbastella barbastellus	Western barbastelle	S	FR
Barbastella barbastellus	Western barbastelle	D	GB
Barbastella barbastellus	Western barbastelle	D	BG
Eptesicus nilssonii	Northern bat	D	DE
Eptesicus nilssonii	Northern bat	S	NO
Eptesicus nilssonii	Northern bat	S roost	NO
Eptesicus serotinus	Serotine bat	D	GB
Miniopterus schreibersii	Common bent-wing bat	D	BG
Myotis bechsteinii	Bechstein’s bat	D	GB
Myotis bechsteinii	Bechstein’s bat	D	GB
Myotis bechsteinii	Bechstein’s bat	S juv	DE
Myotis bechsteinii	Bechstein’s bat	?	DE
Myotis bechsteinii	Bechstein’s bat	D	BG
Myotis brandtii	Brandt’s bat	D	GB
Myotis capaccinii	Long-fingered bat	D	BG
Myotis dasycneme	Pond bat	D	DE
Myotis dasycneme	Pond bat	D	DE
Myotis daubentonii	Daubenton’s bat	D	GB
Myotis daubentonii	Daubenton’s bat	D	DE
Myotis daubentonii	Daubenton’s bat	S roost	NO
Myotis daubentonii	Daubenton’s bat	S roost	NO
Myotis myotis	Greater mouse-eared bat	D	DE
Myotis myotis	Greater mouse-eared bat	S juv	DE
Myotis myotis	Greater mouse-eared bat	D	BG
Myotis mystacinus		D	GB
Myotis mystacinus		D	DE
Myotis nattereri		S	GB
Myotis nattereri		D	GB
Nyctalus leisleri		S	GB
Nyctalus leisleri		S juv	DE
Nyctalus leisleri		S juv	DE
Nyctalus leisleri		D	BG
Nyctalus noctula		F	DE
Nyctalus noctula		S	DE
Nyctalus noctula		S	DE
Nyctalus noctula		D	DE
Nyctalus noctula		D	DE
Pipistrellus kuhlii		S	ES
Pipistrellus kuhlii		S	ES
Pipistrellus nathusii		S	IR
Pipistrellus nathusii		S	DE
Pipistrellus nathusii		D	DE
Pipistrellus pipistrellus		S	DE
Pipistrellus pipistrellus		S	GB
Pipistrellus pipistrellus		F	DE
Pipistrellus pipistrellus		S	GB
Pipistrellus pipistrellus		S juv	DE
Pipistrellus pygmaeus		F	DE
Pipistrellus pygmaeus		S	GB
Pipistrellus pygmaeus		S	GB
Pipistrellus pygmaeus		S	DE
Pipistrellus pygmaeus		S juv	DE
Pipistrellus pygmaeus		D	DE
Plecotus auritus		D	DE
Plecotus austriacus		D	BG
Rhinolophus blasii		D	BG
Rhinolophus euryale		D	BG
Rhinolophus ferrumequinum		D	GB
Rhinolophus hipposideros		D	BG
Rhinolophus mehelyi		D	BG
Vespertilio murinus		S	DE
Vespertilio murinus		S	DE

The noise-reduced and re-synthesized file versions were created in Avisoft-SASLab Pro (blue download icon). Versions for playback in LunaLure UMP-1 and LunaLure UMP-2 devices (green download icons) or versions only for LunaLure UMP-2 devices (red download icons) were multiplied, noise reduced, normalized and resampled in Adobe Audition (with older 3.01 version). Losslessly compressed files for playback in LunaLure UMP-2 were created in Adobe Audition equipped with FLAC v1.2.1 plugin filter.

Note: original recordings which were done with Avisoft Bioacoustic recording equipment were recorded with 250 kHz sampling rates and are not compatible with LunaLure devices. In order to be compatible / playable with LunaLure devices they must be resampled to 384 kHz sampling rate. It can be also 192 kHz or even 96 kHz (and additionally 352.8, 176.4 or 88.2 kHz for UMP-2 device) but the frequency bandwidth of the bat calls should be less than a half of the final sampling rate of the file. In other words: minimal sampling rate for bat calls recordings should be at least twice of the maximal frequency of bat calls. For example : Rhinolophus hipposideros echolocations at ~110 kHz should be resampled to 384 kHz sampling rate (or also 352.8 kHz for UMP-2), because files with sampling rates eg. 192 kHz or lower have not enough bandwidth for 110 kHz signals.
For more info see the Nyquist frequency page.

Call Types : ‘S’ = social (advertizing) call , ‘D’ = distress call, ‘F’ = feeding buzz

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Social Calls, Distress Calls and Feeding Buzzes of European Bats

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