I received an arc of this title from Netgalley for an honest review. Anything that Merlin Tuttle publishes regarding bats is always excellent.

I live in an area where bats can be seen flying at dusk. A bat house has long been on my wish list. I love all of the in-depth information on building a bat house and bats in general. The plans were clear. I can hardly wait to build my own bat house.

Bats are fascinating and also very useful creatures to have around. They are losing habitat, so anything we can do to help them is a bonus. If you want to build a bat house, this book will tell you how.

The Bat House Guide is a must if you want to attract bats to your property. Bats eat tons of insects, such as my personal favorite, mosquitoes. (Go, bats, eat all those mosquitoes!) Having bats around means fewer biting mosquitoes, so I am a big fan of bats. But, you shouldn’t just build a bat house and nail it up just anyplace. Bats have needs regarding temperature, humidity, daily sunlight, and more. So, placing a bat house in a location that will help the bats stay healthy is important. Enter this book.

You get instructions on how to assess the best location to place your bat house. There are plans to use to build your own bat houses, including lumber lists and measurements. Get out those tools! Bat biology is covered to give the reader familiarity with the needs of these small mammals. The photos are just stunning. I don’t know how they get such amazing photos of bats, since they mostly fly at night, but the images in this book are incredible. I think bats are pretty cute, so the photos are neat to look at.

Bats help us pollinate our plants. They eat insects that bite us. Bats are beneficial members of the ecosystem, and we can help them out. Even if you don’t want to build a bat house, it is just interesting to learn more about these fascinating creatures. I loved this book. Highly recommended for anyone interested in bats.

The Bat House Guide is a well written and practical guide to increasing habitat and attracting and supporting bats written by Merlin Tuttle & Danielle Cordani. Released 8th Nov 2022 by Greenleaf, it's 88 pages and is available in hardcover and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately. 

This is a concise and *useful* guide to creating supportive habitat for indigenous bat species in a wide variety of locales. There are tutorials for bat houses and colony houses which include lumber cut lists, isometric drawings and cutaways which will allow readers with some basic woodworking experience to recreate them for local species. 

The photography throughout is truly amazing and top quality. There are macro shots with incredible detail of bats in flight and standing still, eating, rearing young, and going about their business. Even without the useful woodworking plans, the book would be valuable for the amazing photography alone. In addition, it contains a surprising amount of layman accessible natural science and biology (and even a bit of botany related to bats' vital role as pollinators). 

Five stars. This would be a superlative choice for public or school library acquisition, home use, as well as for smallholders, community garden groups, and similar. 

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

I was given an ebook freely by NetGalley and the book’s publisher in return for a voluntary and honest review.

The Bat House Guide
By Merlin Tuttle and Danielle Cordani

I have been fascinated by bats for years and after living in Austin, TX I’ve been wanting to build my own bat house. So this is right up my alley.

There’s 11 chapters and two appendixes and Merlin Tuttle and Danielle Cordani do a wonderful job explaining not only how to build bat houses but why they’re important. We learn why they’re important to the large ecosystem, which we are apart of, but also how we can help them even if you don’t want to build a bat house.

I love how they break down the steps from where to place the bat house and different mounting options to how to attract bats to your bat house. There are about 14 different types of boys that you can attract to bat houses.

In total there are about seven different bat house plans. Ranging from starter houses to one called the rocket.

Lastly, even if you don’t have a huge interest in building a bat house there are some beautiful photographs that are well worth the price of the book.

The Bat House Guide
By Merlin Tuttle

When I think of bats, I don't go screaming in fear because I adore the little things! I just love them! So I have read Mr Tuttle's books and consider him the real Batman! This book has several species of bats listed, along with their photos, and where they normally live. Also what size bat house they normally like. This book is for all of us nuts out there that love nature and/or want crops to grow better without pests.

This gives the reader helpful hints to set up a Bat House. Depending on where you live, on what kind of bats are in your area, and the climate. So many questions are answered for me. Also there are a variety of different bat house designs to make for the winter to set up before the little fuzz balls come back in spring.

This is perfect to get the next generation interested in conservation! A perfect family activity!

I want to thank the publisher and NetGalley for letting me read this terrific book!

Who would have thought that this little book would be so informative and thought provoking. Both my wife and I read the book and are now putting up Bat-boxes around the house and property. Great job Merlin Tuttle and Danielle Cordani!

This book is so informative and the pictures are gorgeous. It has everything you'd need to know about building your first bat house or where to put your second. Very well written.

This book is useful in setting up a successful bat environment. I had a bat house but no bats had nested in it. I learned from the book that temperature is important to the bats, so it has to be located in the right place for the bats to be in a comfortable temperature. The books also suggests that you have more than one house and put them on posts, so that the bats can move from one house to the other as the weather changes.

Thank you to Greenleaf Book Club and NetGalley for an e-ARC of this title in exchange for my honest review. I've been trying to get bats to my home for the past year. This book was timely, and it had so many good ideas on not only how to make the house welcoming to bats, but also how to make various bat houses. I really enjoyed this book, and I think anyone interested in nature, or bats, would enjoy it as well.

Very informative! I can't wait to implement all of the ideas in this book. Very well written. The pictures are amazing.