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GERMANY

Name of scheme: DDA monitoring programme for common breeding birds
Organisation: Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten e.V., Steckby
Status: ongoing
Start: 1989
Number of fieldworkers: 500
Species: 100-130
Habitats recorded: yes
Methods: point counts, line transects and territory mapping
Selection of plots: free choice; stratified typical in the federal state of Brandenburg only
Sustainable support: yes
Website: http://www.dda-web.de/testenv3/index.php5?cat=monitoring&subcat=ha_alt

Name of scheme: DDA Monitoring programme of common breeding birds in the wider countryside
Organisation: Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten e.V., Steckby
Status: ongoing
Start: 2004
Number of fieldworkers: 1300
Species: 100-150
Habitats recorded: yes
Methods: line-transect mapping (like the Swiss field method)
Selection of plots: stratified random
Sustainable support: yes
Website: http://www.dda-web.de/mhb
Reference: Mitschke, A., Sudfeldt, C., Heidrich-Riske, H. and Dröschmeister, R. (2005): Das neue Brutvogelmonitoring in der Normallandschaft Deutschlands - Untersuchungsgebiete, Erfassungsmethode und erste Ergebnisse. Vogelwelt 126: 127-140.

Contact: Alexander Mitschke, Hergartweg 11, D-22559 Hamburg, Germany, e-mail: mitschke (at) dda-web.de

National indicators: Farmland Bird Index, Indicator of sustainable development

Note: Former scheme (started in 1989) will be finished in 2010. Afterwards, the later scheme (started in 2004) will completely take over common breeding bird monitoring in Germany in the next years.

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

17.08.2009