Poland

bird monitoring scheme providing data to PECBMS in 2025 update

existing bird monitoring scheme

no bird monitoring scheme

Poland

Name of scheme: Monitoring Pospolitych Ptaków Lęgowych, Common Breeding Bird Survey
Website: https://monitoringptakow.gios.gov.pl/ptaki-pospolite.html and mppl.pl
Organisation: OTOP BirdLife Poland (2000–2006), Chief Inspectorate for Environmental Protection (since 2007)
Status: ongoing
Start: 2000
Number of fieldworkers: 500
Species: 110
Habitats record: yes
Methods: line transects
Selection of plots: stratified random
Sustainable support: yes
Reference: Tomasz Chodkiewicz, Łukasz Wardecki, and Przemysław Chylarecki "Long-Term Trends of Common Breeding Birds in Poland: Species-Level Patterns, Multi-Species Indices and Trait-Based Predictors of Population Changes," Acta Ornithologica 60(2), 139-174, (31 December 2025)
Beuch S., Chodkiewicz T., Przymencki M., Wardecki Ł., Sikora A., Neubauer G., Smyk B., Marchowski D., Ławicki Ł., Meissner W., Chylarecki P. 2024. Monitoring Ptaków Polski w latach 2021–2024. Biuletyn Monitoringu Przyrody 28: 1–108.
Chodkiewicz T., Chylarecki P., Sikora A., Wardecki Ł., Bobrek R., Neubauer G., Marchowski D., Dmoch A., Kuczyński L. 2019. Raport z wdrażania art. 12 Dyrektywy Ptasiej w Polsce w latach 2013-2018: stan, zmiany, zagrożenia. Biuletyn Monitoringu Przyrody 20: 1–80. [in Polish; tables and graphs are also in English]
Chodkiewicz T., Chylarecki P., Sikora A., Wardecki Ł., Bobrek R., Neubauer G., Marchowski D., Dmoch A., Kuczyński L. 2019. Raport z wdrażania art. 12 Dyrektywy Ptasiej w Polsce w latach 2013-2018: stan, zmiany, zagrożenia. Biuletyn Monitoringu Przyrody 20: 1–80. [in Polish; tables and graphs are also in English] Chylarecki P., Chodkiewicz T., Neubauer G., Sikora A., Meissner W., Woźniak B., Wylegała P., Ławicki Ł., Marchowski D., Betleja J., Bzoma S., Cenian Z., Górski A., Korniluk M., Moczarska J., Ochocińska D., Rubacha S., Wieloch M., Zielińska M., Zieliński P., Kuczyński L. 2018. Trendy liczebności ptaków w Polsce. GIOŚ, Warszawa.
Contact: Łukasz Wardecki – Fieldwork Coordinator OTOP
BirdLife Poland Szeroki Dunaj 5, 00-255 Warsaw, Poland
lukasz.wardecki@otop.org.pl
Tomasz Chodkiewicz – Scientific lead, analyses and reporting
Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish Academy of Science, Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland
tchodkiewicz@miiz.waw.pl
Przemysław Chylarecki – Scientific Supervisor
Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warsaw, Poland
pchylarecki@miiz.waw.pl
Paulina Siejka – Supervision on behalf of the Contracting Authority and Funder
Chief Inspectorate for Environmental Protection, Department of Environmental Monitoring, Al. Jerozolimskie 92, 00-807 Warszawa
p.siejka@gios.gov.pl
Note: The project was conducted between 2000 and 2006 by OTOP BirdLife Poland. Since 2007, it has been included in the State Environmental Monitoring – programme realised by Chief Inspectorate for Environmental Protection and funded by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management.