Team Chiro

Vigie-Chiro is the French national bat monitoring scheme relying on citizen science and acoustic recordings. The project started with 2 protocols in 2006 : car and walk transects. The stationary points protocol started in 2014. Data collected are raw acoustic files (WAC or WAV), which are automatically processed with the TADARIDA bat identification software (see Bas et al. 2017 and Barré et al. 2019). The data collected now allows to calculate population trends for 7 species.

Most recent statistics of participation for stationary points (March 2024):

• 46,408 sampled points

• 178,846 full nights of standardised recordings

• 1,748 participants