{"id":611864,"date":"2026-05-30T10:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611864\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T10:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T10:20:16","slug":"greater-horseshoe-bat-captured-for-first-time-in-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611864\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater horseshoe bat captured for first time in Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A rare bat has been captured in Jersey for the first time since it was audibly recorded in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A rhinolophus ferrumequinum, better known as the greater horseshoe bat because of its horseshoe shaped nose, was captured at about 23:30 BST on Monday in St Peter&#8217;s Valley by the Jersey Bat Group (JBG) and Sangan Island Conservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bat is one of the largest species in the UK, the size of a small pear, and is usually spotted in the south west of England and Wales, the Bat Conservation Trust said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">JBG&#8217;s Miranda Collett said &#8220;despite years of effort&#8221; since it was audibly recorded seven decades ago this was the first capture of the species &#8220;known to be particularly difficult bats to catch&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare bat has been captured in Jersey for the first time since it was audibly recorded in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-611864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}