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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
