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.
This recently published report presents the results of the national breeding bird monitoring scheme in The Netherlands in 2018. It focuses on rare and colonial breeding bird species but also presents trend information for all species in the period 1990-2018.
Read a new volume of Bird Census News 32/1-2! The pdf is freely available for download from the EBCC website.
This issue includes five papers on the monitoring of birds' migration.
Across Europe, we are facing an unprecedented and challenging situation brought upon us by Covid-19, and the restrictions imposed upon normal life in response to the pandemic. At this time we, the European Bird Census Council, want to express our support to our community of birdwatchers, ornithologists, scientists, and conservationists across the continent.
This report presents updated population trends and indices of 170 common European bird species for the time period 1980-2017 that have been produced by the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) in 2019. The species trends presented are for a long time period (from 1980 onwards until 2017) and for the last ten years (2008-2017).
In 2019, the indices and trends for 170 common European species have been produced based on the data from 28 countries. The number of species published and the countries contributing to the PECBMS in 2019 remained the same as the last year.
In December we have produced new leaflet presenting the trends of 170 common European bird species based on data from 28 countries covering 38 years (1980–2017). The leaflet summarises outputs of this 2019 data update and presents an example of a species with very contrasting regional trends – the Common Starling.
