Data access policy

Rules for using PECBMS data

PECBMS is happy to see the data used by external scientists for research purposes or other publications. However, we recommend always contacting the PECBMS coordination unit in advance to avoid misinterpreting data on the website.

Indices and trends for 170 European bird species and a set of main indicators for Europe and the EU are now freely available for download in Excel sheets (Data provision and co-authorship policies apply).

Using the data, we would be grateful if you could acknowledge the data source as ‚EBCC/BirdLife/RSPB/CSO‘.

We appreciate your help in keeping evidence of the usage of our results. For this purpose, please fill in the simple registration form after downloading the data files.

Download European species indices and trends till 2021

Download the latest European and EU indicators until 2021

We recommend reading the rules for using the PECBMS outputs stated in our Data Access And Co-authorship Policy.

Please, note that the data is licensed under a Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 4.0 and is governed by applicable copyright law (Creative Commons Legal Code). Creative Commons. January 9, 2008. Retrieved February 22, 2010.

Note: We recommend a cautious interpretation of year-by-year changes in the index values and the indicators values. Readers should also pay attention to species legends and lists of species and countries. 

For any use of the PECBMS results, we strongly recommend consulting the PECBMS coordination unit.  

For more information, contact project manager Alena Klvaňová or project senior expert Petr Voříšek.