Proceedings from the EBCC conference Bird Number 2025 are published

We are pleased to announce that the Proceedings of the 23rd conference of the European Bird Census Council (EBCC), titled “Bird Numbers 2025: Synergies in monitoring for conservation”, have now been published in the Environmental and Experimental Biology open access journal. They feature 8 contributions from the EBCC conference: 7 original papers and 1 review. The articles offer brief insights into the topics presented and discussed at the conference and are sure to provide readers with interesting information.

Once again, we are grateful to the University of Latvia and the Latvian Ornithological Society, particularly the team led by Oskars Keišs and Ainārs Auniņš, for all their efforts in organising the conference and publishing the proceedings!

Liels paldies (Many thanks)!

The list of articles from the conference in the Proceedings:

László Bozó, Changes in annual captures of 25 passerines in an anthropogenic habitat in Hungary

Thomas Eske Holm, Claus Lunde Pedersen, Thorsten Johannes Skovgaard Balsby, Estimation of national populations for nine Annex I breeding bird species in Denmark

Rui Rufino, João Pedro Pina, Eighteen years of bird census in SW Portugal

Gaëtan Delaloye, Noémie Delaloye, Samuel Wechsler, Ornitho Family: two decades of citizen science in biodiversity monitoring

Edgars Lediņš, Aigars Kalvāns, Imants Jakovļevs, Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) in Latvia – conservation activities of a declined population

Carles Carboneras, Eva Šilarová, Jana Škorpilová, Beatriz Arroyo, Applying PECBMS data in conservation: the Turtle Dove population decline, adaptive management, and recovery

Nico Arcilla, Irene Di Lecce, Migratory connectivity of Palearctic raptors in West Africa: investigating links between wintering and breeding areas and conservation implications through ringing encounters

Oskars Keišs, Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) – species for citizen science in Latvia: arrival phenology and nest box monitoring