EBBA2 wins an award for Best Bird Book of the Year 2021
February 1, 2022
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EBBA2 project team from Prague awarded
December 6, 2021
One of the teams coordinating the EBBA2 project was based at the Czech Society for Ornithology (CSO). Petr Voříšek, Marina Kipson, Martin Kupka, Jana Škorpilová and Alena Klvaňová were responsible for network coordination, communication, project management support and artwork coordination. On 6 November, the team was awarded the CSO Award for a considerable contribution to the coordination of EBBA2, a milestone in European ornithology. Congratulations!
Not silent yet: the shifting sounds of spring
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.
Submit abstracts for the 22nd EBCC conference
September 7, 2021
The closing date for submitting abstracts for oral presentations is 15th October (and 31st December for posters).
Bird Census News 34/1
June 15, 2021
The new issue of the Bird Census News (BCN) is out, including five articles.
Join the EBCC Annual General Meeting
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.
Population changes of common European birds published in Scientific Data
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.
Compilation on breeding bird atlases of Latvia has been published
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.
Bird Numbers 2022
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.
BCN 33/1-2
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.