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ABOUT BAT CONSERVATION AND RESCUE QLD

Bat Conservation and Rescue Qld
is a registered not-for-profit volunteer organization that strives to help people understand the importance
of all bat species, to provide a prompt and humane rescue service, to raise orphans and to rehabilitate injured bats before returning them to the wild.
BCRQ offers this free 24/7 community service all year round including public holidays.

RESCUE

We provide an efficient and humane service to rescue and rehabilitate injured and orphaned bats and return them to the wild as soon as possible.

EDUCATION

We disseminate accurate information through literature, community events and talks to the general public about the importance of bats.

CONSERVATION

We are active advocates in the conservation of bats and their habitat.

HABITAT

We offer advice on helping to provide and improve habitats for bats as well as identifying botanical species that can be injurious to bats.

I HAVE FOUND A BAT

SEEK HELP – PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH BATS!

CALL OUR RESCUE HOTLINE ON 0488 228 134

If a bat bites or scratches a human, it may have to be destroyed and sent for testing for Australian Bat Lyssavirus – do not risk the bat’s life or your health. Only people trained and Rabies vaccinated should handle bats.

A flying-fox hanging on overhead power lines may still be alive. Even if dead, it may be a mother with a live baby tucked up under her wing. Please call BCRQ immediately.

If you find a flying-fox caught on a barbed wire fence, please very carefully and without touching it, throw a towel over the bat to help keep it calm. Then call BCRQ immediately.

If you find a flying-fox caught in fruit tree netting, do not try and cut the bat out of the net but call BCRQ immediately.

If the bat is on the ground, please cover the bat with a cardboard box or a washing basket to contain it and call BCRQ immediately.

Any bat by itself through the day is in trouble.

Keep children and pets away from the bat to help minimise its stress and remember, NO TOUCH NO RISK!

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Bat Conservation & Rescue QLD

7 days ago

This beautiful big black flying fox is Foxtel. He was hopelessly caught on an aerial and was spotted by a resident across the road and called in. Thank you!Luckily access for a fire truck was good and the local Fire and Rescue Service Queensland Fire Department were happy to help. Thank you too!Poor Foxtel was terrified by the noise of the cherry picker approaching him and struggled, entangling ... See MoreSee Less

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1 week ago

One day. Three rescues. Three different locations. Three 8-week-old-ish black flying foxes. Two boys and a girl so…meet Harry, Ron and Hermione. 🦇🦇🦇We suspect they were separated from their mothers during Tropical Cyclone Alfred and have been high in trees alone until, some days later, thin and hungry, they’ve come down lower where they were spotted by caring people who called to get them he ... See MoreSee Less

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Bat Conservation & Rescue QLD

2 weeks ago

Lee is a very lucky boy to have been spotted at night trapped in a vacant construction site. Why was he trapped? The fencing was made of metal. Flying foxes are good climbers but need to be able to dig their claws into what they’re climbing, as they do with trees. Metal is too hard so poor Lee could only crawl around looking for a way out. He looks pretty sad in the photo of where he was found, ... See MoreSee Less

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2 weeks ago

Amon and Amir are two young black flying fox boys who were out foraging in different locations on one of the windy nights during Tropical Cyclone Alfred when they were buffeted into something and ended up hanging down low not feeling great. Luckily both were spotted and called in. Amon is around 3 months old and Amir, 4 months. Both are recovering well, enjoying their fruit buffet each evening. ... See MoreSee Less

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Bat Conservation & Rescue QLD

2 weeks ago

Serenity is just two-and-a-half months old. She should be starting to forage independently by night, while still suckling from her mum by day. Something must have happened to separate her from her mum and she was bravely trying to survive on her own. Imagine the surprise of one of our carers to find this small, thin, girl on the outside of her aviary one morning! It’s just two kilometres from S ... See MoreSee Less

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Bat Conservation & Rescue QLD

3 weeks ago

This sweet boy is Darcy. He’s around 4 months old, just starting out in life, and was found on the ground at the airport one night. A kind person hung him in a tree but he was still there next morning so they rang to get him help. Thank you!He was quite woozy at first so we think he accidentally flew into something. He also had a broken toe, which has been splinted and is healing well. It didn’ ... See MoreSee Less

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3 weeks ago

We had another mass microbat rescue earlier this week!The residents of this house saw a few microbats around their front door one day and the next there were many, many more!At first we thought they’d come from a tree that was being cut up after being blown over during Tropical Cyclone Alfred, however these microbats were Miniopterus australis - little bent-winged or little long-fingered bats, ... See MoreSee Less

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Bat Conservation & Rescue QLD

3 weeks ago

Your social media volunteers have no power (one of us) and no internet (the other one) due to cyclone Alfred. So for today’s post, we’ve dug into the archives for a memorable rescue from some years back that our more recent friends won’t have seen.This bat was spotted by a lovely person on a cross-river ferry in the river at the base of a vertical wall. He was too far down to rescue from above. ... See MoreSee Less

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Bat Conservation & Rescue QLD

4 weeks ago

Meet Windy.He was our last rescue before we locked down as Tropical Cyclone Alfred was arriving at the islands off our coastline. It was a very windy night and he was likely buffeted into something by a strong gust of wind. He was found by a caring person crawling around on the ground in their yard.Windy looks like a grey-headed flying fox at first glance, but he’s a black flying fox with unusu ... See MoreSee Less

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4 weeks ago

This little red flying-fox, named Bob, somehow found his way into a local hardware store. After a quick circuit of the undercover landscape supplies section, he settled high above an aisle where he spent the day admiring the merchandise.Just before closing time, a team of our local volunteers gathered to make the tricky rescue attempt. Capturing a mobile flying-fox in a large area full of obs ... See MoreSee Less

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