Saving Our Species: Bats in Backyards

Discover microbats near you! It’s not too late to join the excitement of the 2023-2024 Bats in Backyards project! Following a fantastic pilot last year, citizen scientists are being called upon to help survey insect-eating bats by recording their calls

Getting to know flying-fox food: Red Bloodwoods

As February and March unfold, Sydney’s sandstone landscapes ease into autumn with the enchanting red bloodwoods in full bloom. Take a leisurely stroll south to Royal National Park, north to Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, or venture west to the lower

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Ku-ring-gai Flying-fox Reserve 2020

A mid-year update The extreme storm last November felled many large trees on top of the fences which had been protecting young trees and shrubs from wallaby browsing. Council’s Operations Department had an enormous task cleaning up post-storm damage from November

Meet a bat night – 28 March 2020

Get to meet flying-foxes up close in a safe environment and learn much more about them! ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Due to popular demand, we are running Meet a bat night again in March as our venue wasn’t large

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An important message from our Chair

Dear KBCS members and friends, I’ve sat down a number of times over the past couple of weeks to write this, but events keep on catching up with me… it was meant to be a nice cheery look back at the

Storm damage in the Reserve

The destructive storm that hit northern Sydney on 27thNovember 2019 felled many very large trees in Ku-ring-gai Flying-fox Reserve. In 2009 this tall blackbutt provided plenty of roosting space for grey-headed flying-foxes but now, ten years later, its top is

Meet a bat night – 29 February 2020

Get to meet flying-foxes up close in a safe environment and learn much more about them! ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]What’s happening: Close (but safe) encounter with live bats Kids’ craft activities Your bat questions answered along with displays and

Meet a bat night – 2 November 2019

Get to meet flying-foxes up close in a safe environment and learn much more about them! (If the video above does not play, try opening this webpage in a different browser e.g. Mozilla Firefox) Make this your battiest Halloween ever!

Blue Mountains Bat Night – 29 March 2019

Blue Mountains Bat Night is back again! This free event is coming to you later this month – be sure to check out the leaflet below for details (or download it here)! For more information, please click here to see

Meet a bat night – 6 April 2019

Get to meet flying-foxes up close in a safe environment and learn much more about them! (if the video above does not play, try opening this webpage in a different browser e.g. Mozilla Firefox) What’s happening: Close (but safe) encounter

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