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Bird Census News 38/1–2

February 25, 2026

The latest issue of Bird Census News is dedicated to acoustic monitoring and features eight new articles. Technical advances over the past decade have driven greater use and interest in passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) of birds. These developments have also raised questions about the current state of the art in PAM, the quality of available tools, and the use of PAM in bird monitoring. In this issue, we introduce the EBCC Acoustic Monitoring Group (AMOG), present survey results on the role of acoustic monitoring from coordinators across Europe, and highlight national examples of PAM use in either species-specific or common bird monitoring schemes. As acoustic monitoring is rapidly evolving, we hope this issue provides an exciting read!

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Bird Census News 37/1–2

January 27, 2026

This Bird Census News issue brings us three new articles, the first of which explores the use of historical bird records in Denmark and combining it with current atlas and monitoring data to draw conclusions on the changes in the avifauna within the last century, the second one from Belgium exploring the impact of Usutu virus on wild bird populations using the Common Bird Monitoring dataset, and finally an assessment of the status and conservation of Cinereous vulture in Armenia. Enjoy the read!

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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/