Czechia

bird monitoring scheme providing data to PECBMS in 2025 update

existing bird monitoring scheme

no bird monitoring scheme

Czechia

Name of scheme: Liniové sčítání druhů (LSD); Breeding Bird Survey Czechia
Website: http://www.birdlife.cz/lsd/
Organisation: Czech Society for Ornithology; www.birdlife.cz
Status: ongoing
Start: 2018
Number of fieldworkers: 89
Species: 100
Habitats record: yes
Methods: line transects
Selection of plots: stratified random
Sustainable support: partial
Contact: Zdeněk Vermouzek
Czech Society for Ornithology, Na Bělidle 34, 150 00 Praha 5, Czech Republic
lsd@birds.cz
Jiří Reif
Institute for Environmental Studies, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Benatska 2, 128 01 Praha 2
jirireif@natur.cuni.cz
Petr Voříšek
Czech Society for Ornithology, Na Bělidle 34, 150 00 Praha 5, Czech Republic
euromonitoring@birdlife.cz
Name of scheme: Jednotný program sčítání ptáků (JPSP); Breeding Bird Census Programme
Website: http://jpsp.birds.cz
Organisation: Czech Society for Ornithology
Status: finished
Start: 1982
End: 2024
Number of fieldworkers: 78
Species: 107
Habitats record: yes
Methods: point counts
Selection of plots: free choice
Sustainable support: partial
Reference: REIF J., GAMERO A., MIKSLOVÁ K., HŮNOVÁ I. (2025): Population increases of mountain forest birds are linked to forest regeneration after reduction of sulphur dioxide concentration in ambient air. Environmental Research Communications 7: 081001.
GRÜNWALD J., HANZELKA J., VOŘÍŠEK P., REIF J., 2024: Long-term population trends of 48 urban bird species correspond between urban and rural areas. iScience 27: 109717.
GRÜNWALD J., AUNINS A., BRAMBILLA M., ESCANDELL V., ESKILDSEN D. P., CHODKIEWICZ T., FONTAINE B., JIGUET F., KÅLÅS J. A., KAMP J., KLVAŇOVÁ A., KUCZYŃSKI L., LEHIKOINEN A., LINDSTRÖM Å, NELLIS R., ØIEN I. J., ŠILAROVÁ E., STREBEL N., VIKSTRØM T., VOŘÍŠEK P. and REIF J., 2024: Ecological traits predict population trends of urban birds in Europe. Ecological Indicators 160: 111926.
LEROY F., REIF J., VERMOUZEK Z., ŠŤASTNÝ K., TRÁVNÍČKOVÁ E., BEJČEK V., MIKULÁŠ I., KEIL P., 2024: Decomposing biodiversity change to processes of extinction, colonization, and recurrence across scales. Ecography: e06995.
REIF J., GAMERO A., HOLOŠKOVÁ A., AUNINS A., CHODKIEWICZ T., HRISTOV I., KURLAVIČIUS P., LEIVITS M., SZÉP T., VOŘÍŠEK P., 2024: Accelerated farmland bird population declines in European countries after their recent EU accession. Science of the Total Environment 946: 174281.
REIF J., GAMERO A., FLOUSEK J., HŮNOVÁ I., 2023: Ambient ozone – New threat to birds in mountain ecosystems? Science of The Total Environment 876: 162711.
SZARVAS F., MICHÁLEK J., VERMOUZEK Z., VOŘÍŠEKP. & REIF J., 2023: Which forest characteristics shape bird abundance in Central European forests? A case study based on common breeding bird survey in Czechia. Acta Ornithologica, 58/2
Storch D., Koleček J., Keil P., Vermouzek Z., Voříšek P., Reif J. 2023: Decomposing trends in bird populations: Climate, life histories and habitat affect different aspects of population change. Diversity and distributions.
Report on Breeding Bird Monitoring Programme in Czechia in 2017.
REIF J., PRYLOVÁ K., ŠIZLING A. L., VERMOUZEK Z., ŠŤASTNÝ K. and BEJČEK V. 2013: Changes in bird community composition in the Czech Republic from 1982 to 2004: increasing biotic homogenization, impacts of warming climate, but no trend in species richness. Journal of Ornithology 154: 359-370.
REIF J. FLOUSEK J. 2012: The role of species‘ ecological traits in climatically driven altitudinal range shifts of central European birds. Oikos 121: 1053-1060.
Reif, J., Voříšek, P., Šťastný, K. and Bejček, V. 2006: Population trends of birds in the Czech Republic during 1982-2005. Sylvia 42: 22-37. (in Czech with English summary)
Contact: Zdeněk Vermouzek
Czech Society for Ornithology, Na Bělidle 34, 150 00 Praha 5, Czech Republic
jpsp@birds.cz
Jiří Reif
Institute for Environmental Studies, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Benatska 2, 128 01 Praha 2
jirireif@natur.cuni.cz
Petr Voříšek
Czech Society for Ornithology, Na Bělidle 34, 150 00 Praha 5, Czech Republic
euromonitoring@birdlife.cz
Name of scheme: White Stork count
Website: http://cap.birdlife.cz
Organisation: Czech Society for Ornithology
Status: ongoing
Start: 2014
Number of fieldworkers: 1141
Species: 1
Habitats record: no
Methods: other
Selection of plots: other
Sustainable support: no
Contact: Gabriela Dobruská
Czech Society for Ornithology, Na Bělidle 34, 150 00 Praha 5, Czechia
cap@birdlife.cz
Name of scheme: Bird Hour – winter bird feeder count (Ptačí hodinka)
Website: http://krmitka.birdlife.cz
Organisation: Czech Society for Ornithology
Status: ongoing
Start: 2019
Number of fieldworkers: 36000
Species: 100
Habitats record: yes
Methods: other
Selection of plots: free choice
Sustainable support: no
Contact: Filip Tuháček
Czech Society for Ornithology, Na Bělidle 34, 150 00 Praha 5, Czechia
ptacihodinka@birdlife.cz