Serotine Bat (Eptesicus serotinus, Schreber 1774)
It’s a big bat, which is larger then open palm in flight. In the summer, the colonies of these bats settle in the attics of the city. For winter, they move to Kharkiv, where they hibernate in cavities in the walls of buildings. Most likely, if you see big bats flying over the stadiums and near windows of your high-rise buildings, then this must be Serotine Bat.
As usually we don’t have big groups of this bats on rehabilitation in Kharkiv for, for the winter of 2017-2018 they were about 30.
It is species of bats which is most inspiring for our illustrator Natasha for her drawings.
Serotine Bat, like all bat species in Ukraine, is included in the Red Data Book.