We are pleased to invite you to the 22nd Conference of the European Bird Census Council (EBCC) called Bird Numbers 2022: “Beyond the Atlas: challenges and opportunities”. The conference will be held from 4 to 8 April 2022 in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland, at the Swiss Museum of Transport (“Verkehrshaus der Schweiz”) next to Lake Lucerne. Mid-conference excursions are planned to various locations in the region. The conference will be organised by the Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach.
The new report published by Forest Europe informs on the state of European common forest birds by presenting the PECBMS Common forest bird species indicator.
The first population-level trend analysis using breeding bird data from the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme has been produced by Wetlands International and the national PECBMS coordinators.
Ten years of hard work, almost 1500 volunteers, and hundreds of thousands of observations. The third mapping of the distribution of Danish breeding birds is done and published. This mapping is the greatest piece of bird research in Denmark.
In 2020, the set of the European Common Bird Indicators has been produced based on the data for 168 common European species from 28 countries up to 2017, and for the first time the indicators for the year 2018 are estimated using the moving average (running mean).
The Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) presents a set of updated European wild bird indicators for the period 1980–2017 and estimates for the year 2018. The values of indicators for the year 2018 are estimated by moving average in the whole set of indicators. The reason for the estimation is a recent general PECBMS data set revision and implementation of the new tools running in the software environment for statistical computing and graphics R (RTRIM and RSWAN). Quality of the input data and a transparent methodology of indicators´ computation is among our top priorities. We aim for a deep data set revision implementing quality measures to make the production of the indicators faster, more transparent, and more efficient.
