{"id":713551,"date":"2026-07-27T12:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713551\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T12:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:39:12","slug":"rare-bat-discovery-takes-jerseys-recorded-species-total-to-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713551\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare bat discovery takes Jersey&#8217;s recorded species total to 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A rare barbastelle bat has been confirmed in Jersey for the first time, taking the island&#8217;s total number of recorded bat species to 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The animal was discovered during licensed surveys near Rozel and fitted with a Bluetooth tracking tag to reveal where it travels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anika Binet, a postgraduate researcher at the University of Sussex, discovered the bat and said she hoped to find out whether it remained in Jersey or moved between the Channel Islands and France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said finding the bat was &#8220;incredibly exciting&#8221; as there had been possible sightings of the species reported on the island since 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rare barbastelle bat has been confirmed in Jersey for the first time, taking the island&#8217;s total number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-713551","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\/713551","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=713551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}