FiveSky Wildlife Acoustics, Inc Echo Meter Touch 2 Bat Detector for iOS

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The following, are conclusions which I've reached, after using The Echo Meter Touch (with iPad mini Retina) for almost a month now. Yep. Wildlife Acoustics has created their free batdetectorapp for both iOS and Android devices that works in conjunction with their Echo Meter Touch 2 (or Touch 2 Pro) ultrasonic microphone. Nope, the apps can’t detect bat sounds without the ultrasonic microphone module attached, but you can import and replay recordings from other devices without it. Using the bat detector app on an Android phone

Using the Echo Meter Touch 2 Pro plug-in module, now discontinued for iOS, this app allows you to listen to record and automatically identify bats by their ultrasonic echolocation calls. The module and this companion app reveal the silent and often times invisible world of bats, providing outdoor enthusiasts, citizen scientists, and researchers an affordable and informative way to interact with these important creatures. There are two models: Echo Meter Touch 2 (EMT2) is intended for nature enthusiasts and batting hobbyists and Echo Meter Touch 2 Pro is designed for bat professionals and features a higher quality microphone, adjustable gain, and higher sample rate. Then a Hetrodyne detector to tune to the specific frequency identified on the EMT, to enable watching of bat behaviour and hear echolocation in real time.

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Overall the Touch is an awesome piece of kit… for the professional bat worker I’d say it’s a no brainer.”– Martin O’Connor, ARBTECH All heterodyne detectors have the problem that they only receive a limited range of call frequencies at one time. How broad a range depends on the individual detector, but between 5 and 20 kHz is usual. Of course this means that, if you are tuned to 20kHz, listening to a Noctule and Greater Horseshoe flies past you are going to miss it. The Bat2 includes a small graph on its display, showing the frequency range of the received call. In theory this means that you can see that Greater Horseshoe, though you would have to be walking about staring at the display, which means you're not going to see any bat behaviour and will probably trip over a tree root. Nonetheless it's a handy function. Bat detectors are mostly sold online. A web search of "bat detector" will bring up links to the major retailers. There are also a few generous retailers who donate a proportion of their sales of some products (including bat detectors) to BCT which you can find here. When choosing a bat detector the two key factors will be your budget and what you want to use the bat detector for.

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So just how accurate are the identifications given by this bat detector kit? The short answer is you get an accurate ID about 80% of the time. But the more complete answer is that it depends on two factors: the species and the Auto ID Sensitivity setting you use during recording. In early April, when sunset temperatures were climbing steadily above 60 degrees, I started parking myself in a chair near the bat house while the sun went down. I placed the ultrasonic microphone module in the charge port of my phone (I use a pretty run-of-the-mill Android model) and started the app. Lady Antonia Fraser calls on King Charles to allow DNA testing of bones in Westminster Abbey which could be those of the princes in the Tower

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