{"id":801957,"date":"2026-10-14T04:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/801957\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T04:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:24:11","slug":"rare-barbastelle-bat-discovered-at-isle-of-wight-care-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/801957\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Barbastelle bat discovered at Isle of Wight care home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Barbastelle bat, later named Briony, was found at Orchard House Care Home by head of maintenance Brian, who is also a keen conservationist.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He contacted the Isle of Wight Bat Hospital for guidance, and the bat was identified as a female Barbastelle, a particularly rare woodland bat.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countypress.co.uk\/news\/26603353.isle-wight-photographer-recognised-international-photography-competition\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Isle of Wight photographer recognised in international photography competition<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Brian said: &#8220;When I found her, I knew the best thing to do was leave her undisturbed and get the right people involved.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It was fantastic to find out that she was healthy enough to be released, and even better to know that she flew off safely.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Briony was cared for by the Bat Hospital team and volunteers, who monitored her health, weighed her, and fed her until she was strong enough to return to the wild.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  During her short stay, she was given four large mealworms.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Once she showed signs of recovery, she was released at dusk in an arboretum near the care home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Barbastelle bat, later named Briony, was found at Orchard House Care Home by head of maintenance Brian,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-801957","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\/801957","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=801957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}