European Bird Census Council

Main categories:

1. What is EBCC?
2. Who are we?
3. Conferences & Workshops
4. Bird Census News
5. European Breeding Bird Atlas
6. Pan-European Common Bird
   Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS)
7. SEED Birds Indicators
8. Country Reports
9. Useful reading and references
10. Monitoring
    software and methods
11. How to get involved
12. Links

Useful reading and references

A wide range of information is available on bird monitoring and atlas methods. Some of the most useful are as follows:

• Van Strien A.J., Pannekoek J. et Gibbons D.W., 2001: Indexing European bird population trends using results of national monitoring schemes: a trial of a new method. - Bird Study 48: 200-213. (PDF download here)
• Gregory R.D., Noble D., Field R., Marchant J., Raven M. et Gibbons D.W., 2003: Using birds as indicators of biodiversity. - Ornis Hungarica 12-13: 11-24. (PDF download here)
• Gregory R.D., van Strien A.J., Vorisek P., Gmelig Meyling A.W., Noble D.G., Foppen R.P.B. et Gibbons D.W., 2005: Developing indicators for European birds. - Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. 360: 269-288. (PDF download here)

• Bennun L. et Howell K., 2002: Birds. In: Davies G. et Hoffmann M. [eds.]: African Forest biodiversity: a field survey manual for vertebrates. - Earthwatch, Europe.
• Bibby C.J., Burgess N.D. et Hill D.A., 2000: Bird Census Techniques. - Academic Press, London, 2^nd edition.
• Bibby C., Jones M., Marsden S., 1998: Expedition Field Techniques. - Bird Surveys. Expedition Advisory Centre, Royal Geographical Society, London. (PDF download here)
• Buckland S.T., Anderson D.R., Burnham K.P., Laake J.L. et Borchers D.L., 2001: Introduction to Distance sampling: estimating abundance of biological populations. - Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Conway C.J., 2003: Stanardized North American marshbird monitoring protocols. - U.S. geological Survey, Arizona Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
• Gibbons D.W. et Gregory R.D., 2005: Birds. In: Sutherland W.J. [ed.]: Ecological Census Techniques: a handbook. - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2^nd edition.
• Gilbert G., Gibbons D.W. et Evans J., 1998: Bird Monitoring Methods - a manual of techniques for key UK species. - RSPB, Sandy.
• Greenwood J.J.D., 2005: Basic techniques. In: Sutherland W.J. [ed.]: Ecological Census Techniques: a handbook. - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2^nd edition.
• Gregory R.D., Gibbons D.W. et Donald P.F., 2004: Bird census and survey techniques. In: Sutherland W.J., Newton I. et Green R. E. [eds.]: Bird Ecology and Conservation; a Handbook of Techniques. - Oxford University Press, Oxford: 17-56. (PDF download here)
• Javed S. et Kaul R., 2002: Field methods for bird surveys. - Bombay Natural History Society, Deparment of Wildlife Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University and World Pheasant Association, New Delhi India.
• Komdeur J., Bertelsen J. et Cracknell G., 1992: Manual for aeroplane and ship surveys of waterfowl and seabirds. - IWRB Special Publication 19. Slimbridge, U.K.
• Koskimies P. et Väisänen R.A. [eds.], 1991: Monitoring Bird Populations. - Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.
• Steinkamp M., Peterjohn H., Bryd V., Carter H. et Lowe R., 2003: Breeding season survey techniques for seabirds and colonial waterbirds throughout North America.
• Underhill L. et Gibbons D., 2002: Mapping and monitoring bird populations; their conservation uses. In: Norris K. et Pain D. [eds.]: Conserving bird biodiversity; general principles and their application. - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 34-60.
• Walsh P.M., Halley D.J., Harris M.P., del Nevo A., Sim I.M.W. et Tasker M.L., 1995: Seabird Monitoring Handbook for Britain and Ireland. - JNCC, Peterborough.
• Wiens J.A. 2009: Is ´monitoring´a dirty word? - Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 2009: 40/2. (PDF download here)

The proceedings of EBCC conferences also contain numerous useful references. Some of the most recent are:

• Szép T., Blair M. et Báldi A. [eds.], 2003: Bird Numbers 2001, Monitoring for Nature Conservation. - Proceedings of the 15^th International Conference of the EBCC. - Ornis Hungarica : 12-13. (link 1, link 2)
• Anselin A. [ed.], 2004: Bird Numbers 1995. - Proceedings of the International Conference and 13^th Meeting of the European Bird Census Council, Pärnu, Estonia. Bird Census News 13 (2000).
• Hagemeijer W. et Verstrael T. [eds.], 1994: Bird Numbers, 1992. Distribution, Monitoring and Ecological Aspects. - SOVON, Beek-Ubbergen.
• Helbig A.J. et Flade M., 1999: Bird Numbers 1998; where monitoring and ecological research meet. - Die Vogelwelt, Supplement 1999.
• Stastny K. et Bejcek V. [eds.]: Bird Census and Atlas Studies. - Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference on Bird Census and Atlas Work. Institute of Systematic and Ecological Biology, Prague.

08.09.2005