October 29, 2020
Verena Keller of the Swiss Ornithological Institute (SOI) in Sempach has been awarded the Marsh Award for International Ornithology by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).
October 6, 2020
We are pleased to announce that the European Breeding Bird Atlas 2, the biggest citizen science biodiversity mapping project in Europe, is getting to its final phase.
August 25, 2020
Read about the topics discussed during the first EBCC AGM to be held by video conference which took place on 9 June 2020.
May 29, 2020
The annual publication “The State of Birds in Switzerland” (in English, French, German, and Italian) summarises the results of our various monitoring projects, conducted with the support of more than 2000 volunteers in all parts of the country.
May 18, 2020
A study on farmland bird populations in Germany was published in Bird Conservation International. The authors explored potential causes for bird population changes based on data from standardised German breeding bird monitoring schemes.
May 11, 2020
A new study on the question “How many birds breed in Switzerland?” was published in Bird Study.
May 7, 2020
The latest report from the BTO/JNCC/RSPB Breeding Bird Survey is published, presenting results from 2019, and also long-term trends for 117 species. Volunteers visit randomly selected 1-km squares twice in the breeding season to gather these important data.
April 28, 2020
Across Europe, we are facing an unprecedented and challenging situation brought upon us by Covid-19, and the restrictions imposed upon normal life in response to the pandemic. At this time we, the European Bird Census Council, want to express our support to our community of birdwatchers, ornithologists, scientists, and conservationists across the continent.
April 21, 2020
BCN 32/1-2 includes five papers and its main theme is the monitoring of bird migration.
March 13, 2020
The European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (eBMS) was started in 2014 by Butterfly Conservation Europe and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. In December 2018 the eBMS was supported by a contract from the EU for a new project Assessing ButterfLies in Europe (ABLE).
