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Join the EBCC Annual General Meeting 2024

March 29, 2024

The EBCC Annual General Meeting will be held on 16 April 2024 at 19:00 CEST. The meeting will begin with an administrative part, followed by reports on EBCC activities in 2023 and several short presentations by EBCC National delegates. It is open to all people interested in EBCC.

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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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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/