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.

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.

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

We are active advocates in the conservation of bats and their 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!

HOW YOU CAN HELP

BECOME A MEMBER

Join as an active or associate member. BCRQ offers free training to members.

MAKE A DONATION

Donate via GoGive, Bank Transfer or PayPal.

All donations of $2.00 and over are tax deductible.

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This precious baby girl is Jo. She’s just 8 weeks old and was found hanging low in a tree in a suburban garden. She has a scar on one wing from a healed injury (already, in her short life 😢 ) and is considerably underweight. 😢 This tells us it’s been some days since she was with her mum. She’s had such an unlucky start to life, but her luck changed when the lovely resident found her and called us. Thank you! Baby bats call for their mothers when apart. It’s their way of saying, “Here I am, mum. Come and get me.” Jo was scared and feeling insecure and continued to call for her mum while first in care, as you can see here. It’s heart rending. She has since settled and is fattening up on nutritious smoothie. She’s with some of our other hand-raised orphans and will be released with them in a couple of months.----------------------------------------------------------If you see a bat on its own in the daytime, it needs help. PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BAT and give us a call immediately on ‭0488 228 134‬ for Brisbane and surrounds, or your local wildlife rescue in other regions.‬ ... See MoreSee Less
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Elina is a sweet juvenile black flying fox and she was spotted by a caring resident in a corner of their garden, under a large tree.We don’t know how she ended up there but the space may have been too tight for her to find her way out. She was quite skinny. Elina had a few days of intensive care then went to a flight aviary to continue her rehab. Here she is just after being placed in the flight aviary, looking around, enjoying the space and batty company. Flying foxes are social animals and do best with the company of other bats.----------------------------------------------------------If you see a bat on its own in the daytime, it needs help. PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BAT and give us a call immediately on ‭0488 228 134‬ for Brisbane and surrounds, or your local wildlife rescue in other regions.‬ ... See MoreSee Less
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This dear little boy, named Goji, was rescued at the age of 10 weeks. We don’t know what happened to Goji’s mother or how he ended up hanging from patio furniture at an Aged Care facility. Goji has a long way to go before he can be considered elderly! Did you know that the average lifespan of flying-foxes in the wild is around 15 years? Statler, an Indian Flying-fox, holds the record for the oldest known flying-fox in captivity. He passed away in 2021 at his home (Batworld in Texas) aged 34 years. -------------------------------------------------------If you see a bat on its own in the daytime, it needs help. PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BAT and give us a call immediately on ‭0488 228 134‬ for Brisbane and surrounds, or your local wildlife rescue in other regions.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ... See MoreSee Less
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An eagle-eyed person out for a walk in a park spotted a dark thing in amongst leaf litter and stopped to investigate. Thank you! This poor little boy, who is named Stanley, is only five days old and had pneumonia. He’s responding well to treatment, feeling a bit better each day, and we expect will soon be thriving like our other hand-raised orphans.See Stanley here still sucking on his bottle even though it’s empty, then sleepy and contented with his dummy and a full tummy.----------------------------------------------------------If you see a bat on its own in the daytime, it needs help. PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BAT and give us a call immediately on ‭0488 228 134‬ for Brisbane and surrounds, or your local wildlife rescue in other regions.‬ ... See MoreSee Less
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This tiny dot is Lana and she’s the size of a newborn baby flying fox. She’s clean and her cord stump has fallen off which makes us think she was born prematurely and her mum looked after her for some days. However Lana was too weak to keep clinging to her mum and sadly fell off one night. Luckily for Lana she fell into the yard of a caring person who gave us a call. We are so grateful! You saved her life. ❤Lana is gradually settling into life in care. Her “job” now is to drink her bottles and grow big and strong ready for her second chance at life in a few months’ time.----------------------------------------------------------If you see a bat on its own in the daytime, it needs help. PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BAT and give us a call immediately on ‭0488 228 134‬ for Brisbane and surrounds, or your local wildlife rescue in other regions.‬ ... See MoreSee Less
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This dear little man is Master Holmes. He was heard crying from in amongst some bushes in the front yard of a caring resident who gave us a call. Thank you! He’s just 11 days old. Most black and grey-headed flying fox mums give birth in October, November and December, however January babies, like Master Holmes, are not too unusual.He’s doing well and will be raised, then released to continue his important pollination and seed dispersal work.----------------------------------------------------------If you see a bat on its own in the daytime, it needs help. PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BAT and give us a call immediately on ‭0488 228 134‬ for Brisbane and surrounds, or your local wildlife rescue in other regions.‬ ... See MoreSee Less
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Our in-care bats absolutely love grapes. By watching others, the younger ones learn how to grab one grape from a hanging bunch and pull it off to enjoy a blissful sweet treat. This is one of our hand-raised orphans, Little Miss, with another orphan, Maya, peeking around from behind. Little Miss is munching on a grape. She’ll chew it until she’s extracted and swallowed all the juice, then she’ll spit out the pulp, any seeds and skin. This is how flying foxes eat any fruit. It’s why they are important seed dispersers of native plants such as figs, native plums and lilly pilly. ----------------------------------------------------------If you see a bat on its own in the daytime, it needs help. PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BAT and give us a call immediately on ‭0488 228 134‬ for Brisbane and surrounds, or your local wildlife rescue in other regions.‬ ... See MoreSee Less
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Our rescue phone volunteer was struggling to find a rescuer for this stunningly beautiful grey-headed flying fox who was in an out-of-the-way location north of our main rescue area.Then she remembered one of our rescuers might be heading home after spending a couple of days volunteering at our orphan release site, and called her. This rescuer pulled over into a side road to take the call and, as luck would have it, the road she pulled into was the very road the bat in need of rescue was on!Named Kismet after this amazing coincidence, he was taken to @RSPCA QLD where he was found to have some bruising and small puncture wounds on one wing. Thank you! He’s now back with one of our carers where he’ll stay until he’s fully healed and ready to be released.----------------------------------------------------------If you see a bat on its own in the daytime, it needs help. PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BAT and give us a call immediately on ‭0488 228 134‬ for Brisbane and surrounds, or your local wildlife rescue in other regions.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ... See MoreSee Less
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Paula is between three and four months old and just learning about the world and how to find food at night. We think she mistook reflections in glass in a residential apartment building in an inner suburb for open space and flew into the glass, then dropped to the ground below. Luckily the kind residents found her and gave us a call. Thank you. She has a sore neck and shoulders but she’ll be up and about in no time and will make a full recovery.----------------------------------------------------------If you see a bat on its own in the daytime, it needs help. PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BAT and give us a call immediately on ‭0488 228 134‬ for Brisbane and surrounds, or your local wildlife rescue in other regions.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ ... See MoreSee Less
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