Bat Sounds

The Sounds of Bats: Chirps, Echoes, and Social Calls

Bats are exceptionally wonderful when they produce sounds. They kind of have superpowers because they can hear with their voices to fly around in the dark without bumping into things. Bats can kind of speak to each other with sounds too.

How Do Bats Make Sound?

Bats can produce different kinds of noises. When a bat flies close to something, it starts to produce very fast clicking noises.It’s analogous to their special radar and helps them catch bugs in the air. But when bats are just cruising along, not looking for food, they will produce a single, short sound instead. Even though most of the bat sounds are unfathomably high and we can’t hear them, some bats speak in a lower voice.

Echolocation: The Key to Navigation

Those are the sounds that our ears can’t pick up. Bats are pointing out and then waiting to hear the shout come back to them so they know where things are. It’s kind of like when you yell in a large empty room and your voice comes back to you. This helps bats find food and avoid running into walls. They produce these sounds using their voice box, which is like ours, but their sounds are usually too high-pitched for us to hear.

If you ever hear bats, remember that they could be talking with friends or finding their way around–yet, this depends on the kinds of sounds they’re making. Bats are exceptionally wonderful because they speak to each other with sounds we sometimes can’t hear.

🔊 Listen to a bat’s chirping echolocation here

Social Communication: Chattering and Chirping

When a lot of them cavort, they tend to produce little cheerful sounds, like birds do when they are happy with their friends. If a bat gets scared, it screams unfathomably loud so the other bats know to watch out. Do you know that baby bats can tell which one is their mom just by the noise she produces? This is really important because there are so many bats living together.

🔊 Listen to the sounds of bats in a cave here

The Sound of a Bat Colony in Flight

When it starts to get dark, and all the bats fly away, it gets quite scary because their wings make a rushing noise, and they all chirp at once like secret bat music. Have you ever heard bats squeaking and their wings flapping? It’s both unbelievably strange and wonderful! And sometimes, adults try to ascertain what bats are saying by using upscale gear to listen to the noises bats produce that our ears can’t hear.

🔊 Listen to 100 bats flying and chirping here

Why Do Bat Sounds Matter?

This is analogous to being a detective but for animal noises! They do this to help keep the bats comfortable, safe, and to learn things such as where they travel for fun and if they’re healthy. We’ve pointed out the spooky and exciting sounds bats produce: their chirpy talking–loud, screamy warnings–the amazing way they find their moms–and the sounds of a large amount of them flying.

Hearing Bats Around Your Home?

This isn’t only something made up—it’s really how bats do things! If you hear abnormal noises such as squeaks coming from your attic, the location where smoke goes up in your house, or the walls, there might be several bats cavorting there. Bats are great, owing to they eat a large amount of bugs, but they can blunder your house if they decide to live there.

If you think bats are living in your location, you call us and we’ll help get them out nicely, without being mean to them.

For more information on bat removal, visit our bat removal page.