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Ongoing major collapse of the Portuguese little bustard breeding population

February 13, 2024

The third Little bustard (Tetrax tetrax) national survey carried out in 2022 estimated a population of 3944 (min–max: 1425–6823) males in Portugal. This represents a population decline of 77% and 56% compared to estimates of the previous surveys from 2006 and 2016, respectively. The species has greatly disappeared outside SPAs, while the remaining breeding population concentrated within the protected area network is showing a steep decline at a rate of 9% a year.

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State of the Netherlands’ Birds 2023, newly published

February 12, 2024

The English version of a yearly public report about how wintering and breeding bird populations are doing in the Netherlands. Thanks to 50 years of censuses and research by volunteers and professionals, Sovon, Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology, produces the trends of 199 breeding and 209 migratory and wintering bird species annually.

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News from the EBCC Small Grant Fund: we obtained funding for two projects

February 6, 2024

In 2023, the EBCC established a Small Grant Fund (SGF) with the aim to support national bird monitoring activities by EBCC partner organisations, particularly in low- and middle-income countries in Europe. Six projects were selected as priority for support in autumn 2023 and we have asked the wider community for donations.

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European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 (EBBA2)

A New European Breeding Bird Atlas EBBA2 is an exciting new challenge for European ornithology providing vital data for conservation. It will document changes in the breeding distribution of all European bird species.

EBBA2 covers 5 years of fieldwork in more than 50 European countries, including the European part of Russia, Caucasus, and Turkey, 2013, and 2017.

https://www.ebba2.info/

PanEuropean Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS)

PanEuropean Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS)

The main goal of the PanEuropean Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) is to use common birds as indicators of the general state of nature using large-scale and long-term monitoring data on changes in breeding populations across Europe.

See the last update of trends and indicators.

https://pecbms.info/

European Bird Portal (EBP)

European Bird Portal (EBP)

The purpose of the European Bird Portal is to establish a European data repository based on aggregated data from online bird recording portals from across Europe.

Mobilizing 100,000 volunteer birdwatchers and 50 million new bird records every year to unravel European-wide spatiotemporal patterns of bird distribution.

https://eurobirdportal.org/