PECBMS

Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) has commenced in January 2002.

The main project goal is:

to use common birds as indicators of the general state of nature using large-scale and long-term monitoring data on changes in breeding populations across Europe.

PECBMS aims are to:

• collect data on European common bird species from national monitoring schemes and calculate European common bird indices and indicators
• make European common bird indices and indicators available to the policymakers and promote them to the public, too
• in cooperation with scientists, explore the forces driving changes in populations of common birds in Europe
• assist to national monitoring scheme coordinators with various tasks related to monitoring methods or data calculation
• create and keep an active network of national monitoring scheme coordinators and other experts on monitoring cooperating with the PECBMS project

PECBMS main outputs are:

• Trends of common birds in Europe
• European wild bird indicators

Production of the European common bird indicators and species trends has been financially supported by the European Commission.

Visit the PECBMS website: www.pecbms.info

For further information, please contact:

Alena Klvaňová, project manager; e-mail: klvanova @ birdlife.cz