The Irish national coordinator has just retired after 25 years
June 7, 2023
Richard (Dick) Coombes – on his retirement, we celebrate the 25th year of coordinating the Countryside Bird Survey
News
Farmland practices are driving bird populations decline across Europe
May 17, 2023
Biodiversity is exposed to increasing pressure by climate and land use changes. But how species respond to these pressures and which is more dominant remain controversial questions. A recent collaborative study including 28 European countries assesses, for the first time, how 170 bird species have responded to major human-induced pressures at a continental scale.
Report on the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme, February 2023
February 28, 2023
This report summarises the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) activities between 1 September 2022 and 28 February 2023.
Third PECBMS webinar took place
February 27, 2023
On Friday, 10 February, the third PECBMS webinar took place on Zoom. Since the new data request is nearing, we organised the webinar on RTRIM-shell and related topics. We guided the national coordinators from the data preparation to data validation in the online tool. Later, Anna Gamero introduced the site-level data online tool, which is available to all the coordinators to manage their site-level data. Furthermore, Sergi Herrando ( ICO, CREAF) introduced the new EBBA Live project.
News from Common Bird Monitoring Scheme in Moldova
December 9, 2022
This year, Moldova joins the International Census Plots initiative. Silvia Ursul, the scheme coordinator, summarises the country's pilot season of bird monitoring in ten plots surveyed by nine volunteers.
2022 Update leaflet published
December 5, 2022
Today, we publish a new leaflet summarising the 2022 Trends and Indicators update outputs. You will find the list of all 170 species, the classification of their trends, the graph of the three main indicators and a graph comparing the EU Farmland Bird Indicator with and without the UK. The leaflet is freely downloadable from the website.
What is new in 2022 data update?
November 23, 2022
Since the last update, we have put effort into collecting data with only a one-year delay. We are happy to announce that almost all countries could deliver their data up to 2021, which is an important step forward for the PECBMS to produce the most up-to-date European indices and indicators possible.
European common bird indicators, 2022 update
November 23, 2022
The Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) presents a set of updated European common bird indicators covering the period of 1980–2021. The outputs based on the data for 168 common bird species come from 30 countries since we included data from Andorra for the first time. We thank all the national coordinators for their efforts to cope with the new programs and the thousands of volunteers counting birds in the field.
Trends of common birds in Europe, 2022 update
November 23, 2022
This report presents updated population trends and indices of 170 common European bird species for the period 1980–2021 produced by the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) in 2022. The species trends presented are for an extended period (from 1980 onwards until 2021) and the last ten years (2012–2021).
Report on the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme, September 2022
September 8, 2022
This report summarises the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) activities between 17 December 2021 and 31 August 2022.