Successful conference Bird Numbers 2019
June 7, 2019
The 21st EBCC conference, called ‘Counting birds counts’ took place in Évora, Portugal on 8-13 April.
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Mini-workshop on wild bird indicators 2019
April 3, 2019
On 11–12th March, a mini-workshop dedicated to wild bird indicators took place in Solsona, Spain. The Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) hosted more than 20 experts in bird monitoring thanks kind invitation from Lluís Brotons.
New leaflet State of common European breeding birds 2018 produced
March 27, 2019
In March we have produced a new leaflet presenting the trends of 170 common European bird species based on data from 28 countries covering 37 years (1980–2016). The leaflet summarises outputs of this 2018 data update and presents a nice example of the use of bird monitoring and atlasing in species conservation. PECBMS and EBBA2 data on the European Turtle-dove helped to identify Priority Intervention Areas for this species.
Conference Bird numbers 2019 is coming!
March 26, 2019
The 21st Conference of the European Bird Census Council (EBCC) called Bird Numbers 2019 ‘Counting birds counts’ will take place in Évora, Portugal on 8-13 April 2019. You are welcome to attend the conference as well as the PECBMS workshop. The programme is already available online and you may download the agenda of the workshop, too.
European indicators used in FAO´s report
March 2, 2019
European common bird indicators produced by the PECBMS were used in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) report: The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture.
What is new in 2018 data update?
January 18, 2019
The number of species published and the countries contributing to the PECBMS in 2018 remained the same as the last year. However, some news in data presentation appeared as species indices are presented in graphs including their lower and upper confidence limits for the time periods from 1980 onwards.
Trends of common birds in Europe, 2018 update
January 18, 2019
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).
European wild bird indicators, 2018 update
January 18, 2019
The Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) presents a set of updated European wild bird indicators for the time period 1980-2016.
Report on the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme, December 2018
December 21, 2018
This report summarizes the activities of the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) between July 2018 and December 2018.
PECBMS has a new coordinator
December 11, 2018
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.