Latvia

bird monitoring scheme providing data to PECBMS in 2023 update

existing bird monitoring scheme

no bird monitoring scheme

Latvia

Name of scheme:	Latvijas ligzdojošo putnu uzskaites (Latvian Breeding Bird Monitoring scheme)
Website:	https://www.lob.lv/programmas/sugas/ligzdojoso-putnu-monitorings/
Organisation:	Latvian Ornithological Society
Status:	ongoing
Start:	2005
Number of fieldworkers:	51
Species:	110
Habitats record:	no
Methods:	line transects
Selection of plots:	random
Sustainable support:	yes
Reference:	AINĀRS AUNIŅŠ 2021: Parasto putnu skaita pārmaiņas 2005–2020: dilstošo sugu skaits turpina pieaugt. Putni dabā 89 (2021/1) Auniņš A. 2018. Declines in breeding birds continue: the most affected are the species wintering in Africa and farmland birds. (in Latvian) Putni dabā 2018, 10–15. Auninš, A. (red.) 2018: Monitoring of the Latvian Breeding Birds. Methodology of counts. Version 2.0 (in Latvian). Riga, Latvian Ornithological Society. Auniņš A. 2017. Unfavourable population trends for many common specie. (in Latvian) Putni dabā 2017 (1), 8–14. Auninš, A., 2016. How populations of the breeding birds have changed in last 10 years? (in Latvian) Putni dabā 2016, 10–15. Auninš, A., 2015. Latvian breeding bird counts : changes in abundance of the common birds 2005 – 2014. (in Latvian) Putni dabā 2015, 8–15. Auninš, A. 2013. Changes in Abundance of Common Birds in Latvia during the Last Seven Years. Putni dabā 2013/1, 10 – 13. Auninš, A. 2009: The new Latvian breeding bird monitoring scheme: sampling design, methods and first results. Bird Census News 22/2: 51 – 62.
Contact:	Ainars Auninš Jelgavas iela 1, Riga, LV-1004, Latvia ainars.aunins@lu.lv
Note:	There is a combination of methods of plot selection: systematic and random

Name of scheme:	Monitoring of birds and habitats in agricultural lands
Organisation:	Latvian Fund for Nature
Status:	finished
Start:	1995
End:	2006
Number of fieldworkers:	6
Species:	25
Habitats record:	yes
Methods:	point counts
Selection of plots:	random
Sustainable support:	yes
Reference:	Auninš, A., Priednieks, J., 2009. Recent changes in agricultural landscape and bird populations in Latvia: impacts and prospects of EU agricultural policy. Avocetta 33, 93–98. Auninš, A., Priednieks, J. 2008: Ten years of farmland bird monitoring in Latvia: population changes 1995-2004. Revista Catalana d´Ornitologia 24: 53-64. Auninš, A. and Priednieks, J. 2003: Bird population changes in Latvian farmland 1995-2000: responses to different scenarios of rural development. Ornis Hungarica 12-13: 41-50.
Contact:	Ainars Auninš Jelgavas iela 1, Riga, LV-1004, Latvia ainars.aunins@lu.lv

Name of scheme:	Breeding Bird Counts
Organisation:	University of Latvia
Status:	finished
Start:	1983
End:	1994
Number of fieldworkers:	7
Species:	30
Habitats record:	no
Methods:	line transects
Selection of plots:	free choice
Sustainable support:	yes
Contact:	Janis Priednieks Jelgavas iela 1, Riga, LV-1004, Latvia jpriedn@lanet.lv

Name of scheme:	Naktsputnu uzskaites (Nightbird monitoring scheme, previously called Corncrake monitoring scheme)
Website:	http://www.lob.lv/lv/programmas/naktsputni.php
Organisation:	Latvian Ornithological Society
Status:	ongoing
Start:	2006
Number of fieldworkers:	35
Species:	15
Habitats record:	yes
Methods:	territory mapping
Selection of plots:	other
Sustainable support:	yes
Contact:	Oskars Keišs Laboratory of Ornithology, Institute of Biology, Jelgavas iela 1–718, LV–1004, Rīga, Latvia grieze@yahoo.com