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.
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).
September 8, 2022
This report summarises the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) activities between 17 December 2021 and 31 August 2022.
June 27, 2022
Migratory birds are declining globally because of the way that humans have modified the landscape over recent decades – according to new research from the University of East Anglia, the University of Porto and the University of Lisbon (both Portugal) and the Czech Society for Ornithology (Czech Republic). A new study, which was based also on the PECBMS data, reveals that population declines have been greatest among species that migrate to areas with more human infrastructure - roads, buildings, power lines, wind turbines - and higher population densities and hunting levels. Habitat degradation and climate change have also played a part in driving long-term declines.
June 10, 2022
SEO/BirdLife has developed two free mobile applications to train the ability to identify birds' songs and count large numbers of birds. Both skills are essential for volunteers collaborating in bird monitoring programs and censuses. It is available in English so that more people can use it.
June 10, 2022
This year, the Society for the Birds and Nature Protection carries out the Common Bird Monitoring Scheme program in Moldova. The scheme started in 2021 as a pilot project. Still, in 2022 the Moldovan ornithologists are financially supported by the EBCC and PECMBS via the „International Census Plots” project, which aims to boost common bird monitoring schemes in Eastern Europe.
June 7, 2022
In spring, a new breeding bird report looking back at season 2020 was published. The report summarises the main results of the national Breeding Bird Monitoring Network in 2020, organised by Sovon Vogelonderzoek Nederland in collaboration with Statistics Netherlands (CBS, responsible for quality assurance). The publication, including an English summary, is available for download.
March 22, 2022
We sincerely invite you to Lucerne to join the PECBMS workshop. You will hear about the project progress since the last Bird Numbers conference in Evora in 2019, the individual scheme news and presentations on some research outputs and future developments.
March 4, 2022
On Tuesday 1 March, the second PECBMS webinar took place on Zoom. Since the new data request is nearing, we organized the webinar on RTRIM-shell and related topics. We guided the national coordinators from the data preparation to data validation in the online tool. Moreover, Anna Gamero introduced the new site-level data online tool which will be accessible to all the coordinators very soon.
March 1, 2022
In February, scientists from the University of East Anglia in collaboration with the PECBMS network published new research on species’ habitat association in Ecological Indicators. They explored the ‘relative habitat use’ (RHU) metric as a means of quantifying species’ habitat association and degree of specialization. The authors recommend the RHU metric as a useful tool in conservation management strategies to protect habitat specialists and their habitats, and thus support national and international progress towards reaching biodiversity targets.
