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You will need a natural england class 2 license to undertake tree roost assessments. This will require you to undertake bat surveys which you will only be able to do working under someone who is a license holder. It’s not something you can just do a course on and normally takes at least a couple of years of fairly consistent survey work as you need people to provide references for your license applications. 

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I do some freelance Ecology work and have been surveying bats for over 30 years doing strictly emergence and track back surveys.

You need to find somebody local to you and volunteer our services to learn the ropes its not as easy as pointing a detector at things as the usual software is poor at identifying.

Lots of work for subbying during the season normally.

The addition of decent climbing skills would be useful in some situations.

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12 hours ago, JLA1990 said:

You will need a natural england class 2 license to undertake tree roost assessments. This will require you to undertake bat surveys which you will only be able to do working under someone who is a license holder. It’s not something you can just do a course on and normally takes at least a couple of years of fairly consistent survey work as you need people to provide references for your license applications. 

I should have added…. Feel free to message me and I can fully explain the path to take (well the one I took anyway, i have class 2 and undertake tree roost assessments). As Anno suggests there’s lots of work out there for field surveyors(volunteer or paid) who undertake dawn/dusk/activity surveys which will give you a good grounding. 

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You can do bat PRF scoping surveys following BS 5896 with only bat awareness training and endoscopy, but you'd need to be qualified and kitted out to climb too. And you have to back off if you cannot reasonably rule out roosting. It's good for when planners ask for bat survys on ridiculously small or yong stuff, and it can be done as a fairly inexpensive bolt-on to BS 5837 or risk surveys. I wouldn't seek out bat survey work on its own though. Probably should, as ecologists froth at the mouth at the very mention of bats and next thing the client's  out £1k for all sorts of fancy surveys that could have been ruled out with a torch and binoculars.

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