EBCC AGM was held on April 27, 2023, starting at 19.00 CEST, Online via Zoom. The EBCC Chair, Mark Eaton, welcomed the audience and introduced his Chairman´s report summarising the main outputs and progress since the last Annual General Meeting in April 2022, held in Luzern, during the EBCC conference.
There are an estimated 75,000 birdwatchers in the Netherlands. A few of these are also dedicated to counting birds, which often becomes a life-long hobby. They want to know which birds occur where in what numbers, and how they are faring.
Read about the Covid-pandemic, how the lockdown affected birds and people who monitor them, and the importance of tourism to bird conservation in Iceland or bird distribution in Western Siberia.
The EBBA Live Farmland aims to produce updated species distributions and maps of change since EBBA2 for c. 50 farmland bird species. The project will produce 50-km maps of observed occurrence of breeding birds, modelled maps showing the 10-km probability of occurrence and maps of the change. The final aim of the project is to determine the capacity of the EBCC network to update maps on a regular and frequent basis. This will be done in close cooperation with partners.
Ukrainian Breeding Bird Atlas on the memory of Ihor Horban (1960-2017), EBBA1 and EBBA2 national coordinator, was officially launched in November 2022, after a long period of data collection (2015–2017) and book preparation (2018–2021).
The idea of updating data on breeding bird distributions on a more frequent and regular basis, which received the name of EBBA Live, was presented and discussed in the EBBA2 workshop in Lucerne (Switzerland) in April 2022, during the 22nd EBCC conference.