It was one of those evenings of the possible: an open sky, warm ground, moments before sunset. In the weird stillness of an August evening, when there's no one about, when wheat fields crackle and ...

Approximately 4000 different vertebrate species are categorized as "true migrators" – i.e. animals that regularly travel longer distances – in the Global Register of Migratory Species. Whilst bird ...

This bat can fly as high as a swallow, some 40 to 50 metres up in the air, making steep dives as it zooms in to feed on mayflies and moths. One of the largest bats in Britain, the noctule can be up to ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. The common noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula). Its wingspan is 320-400mm, and its weight is 19-46g. Provided by Kamran Safi/Max ...

Serena Cherry’s Skyrim-themed black metal outfit Noctule will hit the road in August with Spectral Wound and Wolves In The Throne Room. Noctule, the black metal project of Svalbard's Serena Cherry ...

Folks, I’ll be honest: the sheer volume of shitty behavior and people within the black metal scene that’s come to the surface in recent years has turned me off from the genre almost entirely (call me ...

Svalbard released one of my favorite metal albums of 2020, the anthemic, gorgeous and achingly heavy atmospheric post-hardcore masterpiece, When I Die, Will I Get Better? Only a few months later, ...

Nothing screams ‘too long in lockdown’ quite like a solo black metal album themed around the video game Skyrim. Noctule is a new project from Svalbard singer/guitarist Serena Cherry, and it certainly ...

🦇🌳 At dusk, a Common Noctule silently bursts from a hollow tree, its wings slicing through the evening air. This is one of Europe’s largest bats, perfectly adapted for high-speed twilight flight.