2022 Update leaflet published

On Wednesday, 23  November, we published the 2022 update of the PECBMS trends and indicators. Now we present the main outputs as a leaflet that should help promote bird monitoring and show the project stakeholders and volunteers how the data are used.

The main message is still the same – European birds are declining, and the most pronounced decline is visible in the farmland birds. Species like Eurasian Skylarks, Turtledoves or Lapwings keep falling and vanishing from the European countryside. One of the news in this year´s update was excluding the UK from the EU indicators due to Brexit. As you can see in the graph on the leaflet´s title page, the EU Farmland Bird Indicator looks better without the UK – the birds decline by 52% instead of 60% in the case of the indicator, including the country, as in all previous publications. However, unfortunately, there has been no improvement in the EU farmland birds since the last update of the EU farmland bird indicator. The different output rather shows the importance of including countries with long time series of monitoring to produce realistic indicators.

The new leaflet was sent to the national coordinators of monitoring schemes across Europe and PECBMS stakeholders.

You can download it in two versions:

pdf for print (A5, 21 x 14.8 cm)

pdf for electronic devices