New record of Giant Noctule (Nyctalus lasiopterus) near the Kharkiv city (North-eastern Ukraine)! On the night of 30-31 July 2016, field team of researchers and young naturalists of Bat Rehabilitation Center: Vitali Hukov, Viktor Kovalev, Valeria Nazarnko, Olena Rodenko and Natalia Shanyuk mist-netted 5 individuals of Giant Noctule! Giant Noctule is one of the rarest, and the biggest bat species in Europe. In Kharkiv region as in all Ukraine, the last documented records of this species were taken in 1955
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