On 26 March 2021, the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) network, comprising sixty-six European scientists, published a landmark paper describing the methods, outputs and their use in research and conservation in Scientific Data. This leading open data journal is a part of the Nature family of journals. Alongside the paper, Long-term and large-scale multispecies dataset tracking population changes of common European breeding birds, the database containing supra-national and national population indices of 170 bird species from 28 countries are made publicly available. We believe that the publication will encourage further studies using this unique and powerful dataset based on decades of bird monitoring by thousands of skilled volunteer fieldworkers. Finally, this paper will help to inform and guide conservation science in Europe.
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).
