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3rd Portuguese Breeding Bird Atlas and Continental Portugal Bird Red List

March 29, 2024

Two major achievements for Portuguese ornithology were published in the past month of December. First, the III Portuguese Breeding Bird Atlas updated the distribution for 241 species (227 for the continent, 35 for the Azores and 44 in Madeira) and compared the distribution patterns among two atlases for the first time. This information was also fundamental to reviewing the Bird Red List (only for the Continental part of Portugal) published in 2005.

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German Rare Breeding Bird Survey restructured

March 29, 2024

In 2017, DDA (Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten), together with its partners, decided to restructure the German Rare Breeding Bird Survey to ‒ step by step ‒ develop a monitoring scheme that delivers site-based data, provide Germany-wide standardised field methods, follows a modular approach and enables a mobile digital data collection and transmission.

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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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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/