European Bird Census Council

***New** Latest wild bird trends in Europe: Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) indicators & species trends 1980–2024. Data = 168 bird species, 30 countries⬇️@RSPBScience @BirdLifeEurope @ebcc @EU_ENV @UCLCBER pecbms.info/european-wild-… pecbms.info/trends-and-ind… 🐦 📉

To open the second day of #SteppeBirds2025, Dr. Alena Klvaňová will present her work on using PECBMS and EBBA2 data on steppe birds in European policy and research! 🌾🪶

In February, we kicked off a campaign in order to increase the engagement of observers and number of complete lists in SE Europe thanks to @LIFEprogramme @EuroBirdPortal Reinforcement project. Read more here: life.eurobirdportal.org/news

The latest @EuroBirdPortal meeting gathered 36 participants (from 18 countries), read more about the overall progress of the project and where it is heading with thanks to @LIFEprogramme ebcc.info/the-21st-ebp-m…

🤔How difficult it is to predict species population changes in the future? 🧐What kind of species are predicted to increase or decrease in North Europe? Sirke Piirainen asked such questions in her PhD thesis at the University of Helsinki, Finland. hdl.handle.net/10138/587712

Two new Barn Owl Tyto alba guttata breeding locations in Ukraine❗️ 🔹In October 2023, owls bred in Lyman, Donetsk. 🔹In spring 2024, six chicks were observed in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr. 👍These sites now mark the most northeastern breeding records for the species in Europe.

📣Riga Conference: register now! The 23rd EBCC conference will be held from 31 March to 4 April 2025 in Riga, Latvia. 👉The deadline for abstract submission for posters conferences.lu.lv/event/579/ and early bird registration conferences.lu.lv/event/579/ is January 15, 2025

🧐Did you know? 👉@_EBCC EBBA2 maps are now available in the Collins Bird Guide App! #ornithology ❓Do you use it on your mobile phone?

🌟 Alena Klvaňová of @birdlifecz will discuss trends in European steppe bird populations at #SteppeBirds2025! 🦅 Discover how @_EBCC findings guide policy decisions in Europe. Don’t miss it! ℹ️ steppebirds.com #Ornithology #ConservationScience

🧐How are the birds in Europe doing? 👉Check the 2024 species trends update: pecbms.info/trends-of-wild…

🧐What is new in European bird monitoring? 👉Check the Winter issue of the EBCC Newsletter: eepurl.com/i6hoOY Photo by jiří Parůžek jiri-paruzek-foto.cz

🚨JOB OFFER🚨 2-year postdoc position @BiodiversaPlus TABMON (Towards a transnational Acoustic Biodiversity MONitoring network) project at @ctforestal on #bioacoustics & #ornithology with 🇳🇴🇫🇷🇳🇱 partners and collaboration with @ICOcells & @_EBCC . + info: shorturl.at/HE0qh

🧐How are the birds doing in Europe? 👉Explore 170 updated species trends: pecbms.info/trends-of-wild…

👉Today, we published the 2024 PECBMS update of bird trends and Wild Bird Indices pecbms.info/european-wild-… Unfortunately, the birds keep declining.

👉An exciting EBCC Spatial Modelling Group workshop is taking place now at SOVON (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). Boosted by the EBP Life Reinforcement project, 23 researchers are exploring methods to develop a new generation of maps based on EBP and PECBMS data.

Attend Conference on Steppe Birds ! Early Bird registration: January 15, 2025 Submission Deadline: November 18, 2024 👉Visit the website: steppebirds.com

Continuing with the EBP LIFE Reinforcement workshop, David Marti and Marc Illa from @ICOcells gave an overview of EBP dataflow and taxonomy mapping

EBP annual meeting and LIFE workshop second day: Petr Vorisek from CSO commenting on the importance of standard bird monitoring and filling the gap in SE Europe on the example of Turtle Dove

EBP annual meeting and LIFE Reinforcement project started yesterday in sunny Podgorica, 36 participants from 18 countries joined us

In the central-eastern flyway, hunting efforts were only reduced, the numbers continued to decline to a historic low of 0.56 million pairs in 2023, down by 15 % since 2021. Read the paper: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co….

📣The suspend hunting from 2021 has allowed a population recovery in Turtle Dove! A paper published in Conservation Letters today shows the population response in terms of breeding numbers after the first two seasons of the moratorium. Read more: pecbms.info/science-based-…