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Three bird monitoring projects need your support

September 19, 2024

The European Bird Census Council has set up a Small Grant Fund (SGF) to support national bird monitoring activities, particularly in Europe’s low- and middle-income countries. In 2024, the EBCC Board selected three projects as priorities for support. The projects come from three countries and request nearly 30,000 euros in total. As the EBCC’s resources are insufficient to fund all projects selected for support, we kindly ask individuals or organisations to donate and help us support the projects.

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A study found effective learning of bird identification skills and online tests reflect field skills

September 18, 2024

During 2010–2018, 798 students from nine European countries participated in the combined field and online teaching program in bird identification arranged by Nord University. The research method was an online bird identification test (www.birdid.no) at the beginning of the study, an online test and a field test (point count) at the end of the field teaching period, and an online exam at the end of the study. The results showed great progress from the beginning to the exam at the end of the study, measured on the 61 students who completed all four tests in 2018.  

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Second announcement of Bird Numbers 2025

September 16, 2024

The 23rd conference of the European Bird Census Council (EBCC) "Bird Numbers 2025: Synergies in monitoring for conservation" will be held from 31 March to 4 April 2025 in Riga, the capital of Latvia. The conference will be organised by the University of Latvia with support from the Latvia Ornithological Society. The abstract submission is now open. The deadline for oral presentations is September 30, and for poster presentations – January 15, 2025.

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European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 (EBBA2)

A New European Breeding Bird Atlas EBBA2 is an exciting new challenge for European ornithology providing vital data for conservation. It will document changes in the breeding distribution of all European bird species.

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

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/