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LATVIA

Name of scheme: Latvian Breeding Bird Monitoring scheme
Organisation: Latvian Ornithological Society
Status: ongoing
Start: 2005
Number of fieldworkers: 30
Species: 60
Habitats recorded: no
Methods: line transect
Selection of plots: systematic and random
Sustainable support: yes
Website: http://www.lob.lv/lv/lp_monitorings
Reference: Aunins A., Mārdega I. (2009): Results of the breeding bird counts after the fourth season (in Latvian) Putni dabā 2009/1: 10-12.
Aunins A. (red.) (2005): Monitoring of the Latvian Breeding Birds. Methodology of counts. (in Latvian). Rīga, Latvians Ornithological Society.

Contact: Ainars Aunins, Dzirnavu iela 73 - 2, Riga, LV-1011, Latvia, e-mail: ainars.aunins (at) lu.lv

Name of scheme: Monitoring of birds and habitats in agricultural lands
Organisation: Latvian Fund for Nature
Status: finished
Start/end: 1995/2006
Number of fieldworkers: 6
Species: 25
Habitats recorded: yes
Methods: point counts
Selection of plots: random
Reference: Aunins A., Priednieks J. (2008): Ten years of farmland bird monitoring in Latvia: population changes 1995-2004. Revista Catalana d´Ornitologia 24: 53-64.
Aunins, A. and Priednieks, J. (2003): Bird population changes in Latvian farmland 1995-2000: responses to different scenarios of rural development. Ornis Hungarica 12-13: 41-50.

Contact: Ainars Auninš, Dzirnavu iela 73 - 2, Riga, LV-1011, Latvia, e-mail: ainars.aunins (at) lu.lv

Name of scheme: Breeding Bird Counts
Organisation: University of Latvia
Status: finished
Start/end: 1983/1994
Number of fieldworkers: 7
Species: 30
Habitats recorded: no
Methods: line transect
Selection of plots:

Contact: Janis Priednieks, Kronvalda bulv. 4, Riga, LV-1010, Latvia, e-mail: jpriedn (at) lanet.lv

Name of scheme: Nightbird monitoring scheme (previously called Corncrake monitoring scheme)
Organisation: Latvian Ornithological Society
Status: specialized ongoing scheme (farmland birds active at night)
Start: 2006 (Corncrake since 1989)
Number of fieldworkers: 35
Species: 60
Habitats recorded: yes
Methods: territory mapping
Selection of plots:
Sustainable support: no
Website: http://www.lob.lv/lv/programmas/naktsputni.php

Contact: Oskars Keišs, Miera iela 3, Salaspils, LV-2169, Latvia, e-mail: grieze (at) lanet.lv

National indicators: Farmland Bird Indicator (Latvian and PECBMS version), Breeding density of Corncrake

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

18.08.2009