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FRANCE

Name of scheme: Temporal Survey of Common Birds (Suivi Temporel des Oiseaux Communs = STOC)
Organisation: Centre de Recherches sur la Biologie des Populations d' Oiseaux (CRBPO), Museum National d'Historie Naturelle
Status: ongoing
Start: 1989
Number of fieldworkers: 1000
Species: 150
Habitats recorded: yes
Methods: point counts
Selection of plots:
Sustainable support: yes
Website: http://www2.mnhn.fr/vigie-nature/spip.php?rubrique2
Reference: Jiguet, F. (2007): Bilan du programme STOC pour la France en 2007.
National indicators: Farmland Bird Index, Espèces spécialistes des milieux agricoles, forestiers, bâtis, espèces généralistes (´Farmland, woodland, urban specialists and habitat generalists also an indicator of the impact of climate change´)

Contact: Frederic Jiguet, CRBPO, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France, e-mail: fjiguet (at) mnhn.fr

Indicators produced are used as official indicators in the country: yes

17.08.2009