EBCC Small Grant Fund supported projects
The projects supported by EBCC Small Grant Fund for Monitoring
Project title: Support for Common bird monitoring and Breeding bird atlas in Bulgaria
Country: Bulgaria
Summary of the project: The goals of this application are as the following:
- Ensure continuation of Common Bird Monitoring Scheme in Bulgaria during expected gap year – 2024
- Improve coverage of the Bulgarian Second National Breeding Bird Atlas
The outputs will be as the following:
- Common Bird monitoring Scheme in Bulgaria will be coordinated, communication with volunteers will be kept and data from 2024 will be processed and provided to the European data base. At least 70 plots will be monitored by volunteers.
- Breeding bird surveys in 20 remote squares 10×10 will be carried out and Atlas methodology will be applied by experienced ornithologists.
- Knowledge on distribution of range restricted and cryptic species will be improved e.g. Pymy owl, Ural owl, Hazel grouse, Alpine accentor, Wallcreeper, Horned Lark, Rock thrush, Stone curlew, Eagle owl, Masked shrike, Olive-tree warbler.
Status: ongoing.
Project title: Breeding bird monitoring in ‘northern’ Cyprus to complete island-wide coverage, including for localized Calandra Lark & Audouin’s Gull, in cooperation with KUŞKOR
Country: Cyprus
Summary of the project: We propose breeding bird monitoring in ‘northern’ Cyprus to complete island-wide coverage, including for localized Calandra Lark & Audouin’s Gull. Working in cooperation with the Turkish Cypriot bird protection society, KUŞKOR, we will also be building for longer-term island-wide monitoring. We aim to complete gaps in on-going systematic field monitoring activities in Cyprus north of the dividing line, where existing funding will not cover personnel expenses or operational costs. This monitoring will complement on-going data gathering and assessment work by BirdLife Cyprus for reporting under ‘article 12’ of the EU Birds Directive. The monitoring will follow the methodologies used under established BirdLife Cyprus programmes and will focus on key breeding species such as Roller, and on species largely on wholly restricted to ‘northern’ Cyprus, such as Calandra Lark, Raven and Hobby.
Status: ongoing
Project title: National atlas of Serbia. Survey of poorly known forest birds and the first census of Collared Sand Martin (Riparia riparia) colonies in Serbia.
Country: Serbia
Summary of the project: With this project we plan to increase field effort for the ongoing work on the first Atlas of breeding birds of Serbia as well as to increase the knowledge of rare forest bird species and regionally decreasing Collared Sand Martins (CSM). CSM were never nationally surveyed so far. We will also use this opportunity to additionally train old and new field assistants for new surveys in future as well as for The Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme which is ongoing.
Status: ongoing