Minutes of the June EBCC Annual General Meeting
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.
Articles
New report: The State of Birds in Switzerland 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.
Drivers of population change in common farmland birds in Germany
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.
How many birds breed in Switzerland
May 11, 2020
A new study on the question “How many birds breed in Switzerland?” was published in Bird Study.
The new UK Breeding Bird Survey Report
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.
An EBCC response to COVID-19
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.
BCN 32/1-2
April 21, 2020
BCN 32/1-2 includes five papers and its main theme is the monitoring of bird migration.
Butterfly Monitoring in Europe – how you can help
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).
Contrasting Common Starling trends across Europe
November 14, 2019
A recent paper published in Ornis Fennica (Heldbjerg et al. 2019) showed that positive population trends of Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) in Central-East Europe contrast with negative trends in North and West Europe. The study, which included common bird monitoring data from 24 European countries and involved no less than 34 co-authors, provides an example of how useful the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) and all the included national monitoring schemes within this collaboration are.
EBCC celebrates two winners of the BTO Marsh Awards
October 26, 2019
We are very proud to announce that Petr Voříšek, the long-standing PECBMS coordinator, was awarded the BTO Marsh Award for International Ornithology and the EuroBirdPortal team is this year´s winner of the BTO Marsh Award for Innovative Ornithology.