It's official: all European breeding bird distribution maps from #EBBA2 are online. A truly collaborative work now even more available for research and discovery. @newebba #ornithology #birdwatching 🥳.Check our new #EBBA2 website

RT @giaeavesteparia: To open the second day of #SteppeBirds2025, Dr. Alena Klvaňová will present her work on using PECBMS and EBBA2 data on….

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:

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

🤔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.

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 and early bird registration 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?

RT @giaeavesteparia: 🌟 Alena Klvaňová of @birdlifecz will discuss trends in European steppe bird populations at #SteppeBirds2025! 🦅 Discove….

🧐How are the birds in Europe doing?.👉Check the 2024 species trends update:

🧐What is new in European bird monitoring?.👉Check the Winter issue of the EBCC Newsletter: Photo by jiří Parůžek

RT @GBiC_CTF: 🚨JOB OFFER🚨 2-year postdoc position @BiodiversaPlus TABMON (Towards a transnational Acoustic Biodiversity MONitoring network)….

🧐How are the birds doing in Europe?.👉Explore 170 updated species trends:.

👉Today, we published the 2024 PECBMS update of bird trends and Wild Bird Indices.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:

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:

Data compiled and analysed by the PECBMS show that the numbers started to rise to 1.96 million pairs, an increase of 400 thousand breeding pairs, or 25 % (in 2023), in only two years after the ban.