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The ongoing EBCC project in Serbia is very successful

June 10, 2025

Bird Protection and Study Society of Serbia was awarded in 2024 by EBCC for the project "Survey of poorly known forest birds and the first census of Collared Sand Martin (Riparia riparia) colonies in Serbia".

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Bird Numbers 2025 – an unforgettable event

May 8, 2025

The 23rd conference of the European Bird Census Council (EBCC), called "Bird Numbers 2025: Synergies in monitoring for conservation", took place from 31 March to 4 April 2025 in Riga, Latvia. The University of Latvia organised the conference with support from the Latvian Ornithological Society.

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The Cyprus Bird Surveys Project: bird monitoring across the divide funded through the EBCC SGF

March 7, 2025

BirdLife Cyprus has been running long-term bird monitoring schemes for well over a decade, with some programmes ongoing since the 1980s. Unfortunately, however, the coverage of such monitoring schemes has been largely limited to part of the island.

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European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 (EBBA2)

European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 (EBBA2)

The European Breeding Bird Atlas is one of the most ambitious biodiversity mapping projects ever done. It documents changes in the breeding distribution of all European bird species and provides vital data for conservation.

EBBA2 covers 5 years of fieldwork in more than 50 European countries, including the European part of Russia, Caucasus, and Turkey, between 2013, and 2017.

EBBA Live, develops the project further with aim to update data on species’ distributions on a more frequent basis, ensuring that they are harmonised across Europe.

https://www.ebba2.info/

PanEuropean Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS)

PanEuropean Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS)

The main goal of the PanEuropean Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) is to use common birds as indicators of the general state of nature using large-scale and long-term monitoring data on changes in breeding populations across Europe.

See the last update of trends and indicators.

https://pecbms.info/

European Bird Portal (EBP)

European Bird Portal (EBP)

The purpose of the European Bird Portal is to establish a European data repository based on aggregated data from online bird recording portals from across Europe.

Mobilizing 100,000 volunteer birdwatchers and 50 million new bird records every year to unravel European-wide spatiotemporal patterns of bird distribution.

https://eurobirdportal.org/