November 4, 2021
Natural sounds, and bird songs, in particular, play a key role in building and maintaining our connection with nature – but a major new study published on 2 November in Nature Communications reveals that the sounds of spring are changing, with dawn choruses across North America and Europe becoming quieter and less varied.
September 7, 2021
The closing date for submitting abstracts for oral presentations is 15th October (and 31st December for posters).
June 15, 2021
The new issue of the Bird Census News (BCN) is out, including five articles.
April 7, 2021
We are happy to invite you to attend the EBCC Annual General Meeting (AGM) at 19.00hrs (CET) on 20 April, to be held via Microsoft Teams. As well as the normal content of the AGM, this year we have invited three speakers to give short talks about the surveying and atlasing work within their countries.
March 26, 2021
On 26 March 2021, the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) network, comprising sixty-six European scientists, published a landmark paper describing the methods, outputs and their use in research and conservation in Scientific Data. This leading open data journal is a part of the Nature family of journals. Alongside the paper, Long-term and large-scale multispecies dataset tracking population changes of common European breeding birds, the database containing supra-national and national population indices of 170 bird species from 28 countries are made publicly available. We believe that the publication will encourage further studies using this unique and powerful dataset based on decades of bird monitoring by thousands of skilled volunteer fieldworkers. Finally, this paper will help to inform and guide conservation science in Europe.
March 26, 2021
Latvian Ornithological Society (BirdLife partner in Latvia) has published a book called Latvian Breeding Bird Atlases 1980-2017. Abundance, distribution and population trends of birds. The book brings a compilation of the four previous bird atlas projects organised in Latvia.
March 12, 2021
We are pleased to invite you to the 22nd Conference of the European Bird Census Council (EBCC) called Bird Numbers 2022: “Beyond the Atlas: challenges and opportunities”. The conference will be held from 4 to 8 April 2022 in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland, at the Swiss Museum of Transport (“Verkehrshaus der Schweiz”) next to Lake Lucerne.
February 17, 2021
BCN 33/1-2 includes five papers and for the first time, it brings interviews, as well as another new series of articles, that aims to describe different online portals for national monitoring schemes.
December 12, 2020
The European Bird Census Council publishes the second European Breeding Bird Atlas EBBA2, a milestone for biodiversity knowledge in Europe, a tremendous collaborative effort by the EBCC and its partner organisations made it possible to collect bird data from across 11 million km2 in a systematic and standardised manner.
November 16, 2020
