EBCC Small Grant Fund for Monitoring
June 1, 2023
EBCC is launching a Small Grant Fund intending to support national bird monitoring activities by EBCC partner organisations in low- and middle-income countries in Europe.
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EBCC receives an Honorary Mention in the European Union Prize for Citizen Science
May 24, 2023
For the first time, the European Union have awarded a prize for the outstanding citizen science project https://ars.electronica.art/citizenscience/en/. The EBCC received an Honorary Mention in this competition of various citizen science projects in Europe.
New EBCC Chair and Vice-chair
May 11, 2023
During the EBCC Annual General Meeting on 27 April 2023, the participants elected new EBCC Chair, Verena Keller, who replaced Mark Eaton, and Vice-Chair, Sergi Herrando, who took over the role from Verena Keller. We thank Mark, who stays a Board member, for his long-term work and his tremendous efforts as the EBCC Chairman.
EBCC Annual General Meeting 2023 took place
May 11, 2023
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.
EBCC Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2023
March 29, 2023
EBCC Board invites you to participate in the EBCC Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2023 on April 27, 2023, starting at 19.00 CEST, Online via Zoom.
50 years of Sovon
March 14, 2023
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.
EFSA’s Bird Flu Radar
March 13, 2023
We introduce you to EFSA's Bird Flu Radar, a new tool to support European Avian Influenza surveillance.
Bird Census News 35/1–2
December 19, 2022
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.
EBBA Live Farmland: whole involvement and first maps
December 9, 2022
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.
The first Ukrainian Breeding Bird Atlas ever was published
December 7, 2022
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).