This report presents updated population trends and indices of 170 common European bird species for the time period 1980-2016 that have been produced by the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) in 2018. The species trends presented are for a long time period (from 1980 onwards until 2016) and for the last ten years (2007-2016).
Since October 2018 PanEuropean Common Bird Monitoring Scheme is coordinated by Eva Šilarová. To introduce Eva we asked her to tell us more about herself.
The Dutch Bird Atlas has been published in November 2018. It describes distribution, numbers, and 40 years of population change of all breeding and wintering birds in the Netherlands.
During four years, more than 2000 volunteers were out in the field documenting the bird populations of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Their effort has resulted in a unique overview of the distribution and current state of birds breeding in this area.
The first Atlas of Wintering and Migratory Birds of Portugal is the largest collective ornithological work of the last 10 years in the country and is finally published.
This report summarizes the activities of the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) between July 2017 and June 2018, mostly under the European Commission grant “Towards a new generation of Wild Birds Indicators”.
In 2017, the indices and trends for 170 common European species have been produced based on the data from 28 countries. Here we present several details regarding this data update.