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What is Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring?
Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Project has commenced in January 2002. The main project goal is to use common birds as indicators of the general state of nature using scientific data on changes in breeding populations across Europe.
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This report presents the brief summary of activities and achievements of the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) from November 2008 to March 2009. In these last 5 months our main attention was in the preparation of the 3rd PECBMS workshop in Prague. Further distribution of the ´Best Practice Guide´ publication was organised and carried out. Besides these activities, work on data quality improvements and new data collection continued.
In 2008, the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) has produced already the fourth update of the European wild bird indicators. This report summarizes the set of head indicators as well as describes computation methods and data.
EU unlikely to meet its 2010 biodiversity target
Brussels and Prague, 2 December 2008 - According to the latest data from the European Bird Census Council (EBCC) and BirdLife International, many of Europe´s formerly "common" farmland birds continue to suffer from the effects of agricultural intensification.
The new publication with title A Best Practice Guide for Wild Bird Monitoring Schemes has just been published.
The report brings together the concise information on the activities and developments in the PECBM scheme from May to October 2008. In this period we have concentrated on completing the updated indices of common species for Europe, EU and European regions. At the same time, the collation of updated national indices for next data update has started. Our work was further highly focused on finishing the publication of the Best Practice Guide. Last but very important and intensive effort was put to maintain a PECBMS team of co-workers through numerous advisory work and the other heterogeneous activities.
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