European Bird Census Council

EBCC is…

The EBCC is an association under Dutch Law of like-minded expert ornithologists co-operating in a range of ways to improve bird monitoring and atlas work and thereby inform and improve the management and conservation of birds populations in Europe.

Conference Bird Numbers 2025 Latvia

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Launch of the Cyprus Bird Surveys Project, with some of the volunteer bird surveyors from both Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities. Photo by Olkan Erguler

The Cyprus Bird Surveys Project: bird monitoring across the divide funded through the EBCC SGF

March 7, 2025

BirdLife Cyprus has been running long-term bird monitoring schemes for well over a decade, with some programmes ongoing since the 1980s. Unfortunately, however, the coverage of such monitoring schemes has been largely limited to part of the island.

State of Birds in the Netherlands 2024

February 7, 2025

Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology recently published its annual State of Birds. In this report, the most important current developments are listed in concise items, compiling knowledge and trends of 200 breeding and 204 migratory and wintering bird species. This information is based on data collected by volunteers throughout the country.

A Milestone for Common Bird Monitoring in Albania

December 16, 2024

The Albanian Ornithological Society (AOS) has taken an important step in bird conservation by launching the International Census Plot for Breeding Birds as part of the Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (CBMS). This initiative, implemented for the first time in Albania, aims to establish a sustainable long-term bird population monitoring framework.

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European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 (EBBA2)

The European Breeding Bird Atlas is one of the most ambitious biodiversity mapping projects ever done. It documents changes in the breeding distribution of all European bird species and provides vital data for conservation.

EBBA2 covers 5 years of fieldwork in more than 50 European countries, including the European part of Russia, Caucasus, and Turkey, between 2013, and 2017.

https://www.ebba2.info/

PanEuropean Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS)

The main goal of the PanEuropean Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) 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.

See the last update of trends and indicators.

https://pecbms.info/

European Bird Portal (EBP)

The purpose of the European Bird Portal is to establish a European data repository based on aggregated data from online bird recording portals from across Europe.

Mobilizing 100,000 volunteer birdwatchers and 50 million new bird records every year to unravel European-wide spatiotemporal patterns of bird distribution.

https://eurobirdportal.org/