Habitat
The Greater Horseshoe Bat lives in warmer regions of areas of open trees and scrub, near areas of standing water (e.g., ponds), areas of limestone and human settlement. The species is mainly house-dwelling in the north and cave-dwelling in the south. In the mountains nests are normally at below 800 metres above sea level. They are faithful to their summer and winter roosts, returning to the same sites each year.
Other favoured habitat include woodland with grassy rides and glades, old orchards, old 'veteran' trees with holes, permanent pasture, hedgerows linking the different features together.
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