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Where are farmland birds disappearing in Europe: providing regular and frequent maps from European monitoring data

April 15, 2026

As Europe’s landscapes continue to change, many farmland birds — once widespread and familiar — are quietly vanishing. Identifying where these declines occur, how rapidly, and why is vital for protecting biodiversity and guiding effective environmental policies. A recent scientific study, utilising data collected through the EBCC network and published in Conservation Biology, offers a valuable new tool: the ability to generate regular, high‑resolution maps illustrating changes in the probability of farmland bird occurrences across Europe.

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Proceedings from the EBCC conference Bird Number 2025 are published

April 1, 2026

We are pleased to announce that the Proceedings of the 23rd conference of the European Bird Census Council (EBCC), titled “Bird Numbers 2025: Synergies in monitoring for conservation”, have now been published in the Environmental and Experimental Biology open access journal. The articles offer brief insights into the topics presented and discussed at the conference and are sure to provide readers with interesting information.

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EBCC to support bird monitoring projects in Armenia and Bosnia & Herzegovina

March 9, 2026

The European Bird Census Council (EBCC) will support two important initiatives in Armenia and Bosnia & Herzegovina through its Small Grant Fund (SGF). The scheme aims to strengthen bird monitoring activities in European countries where financial and technical capacity for large-scale monitoring programmes is often limited. These projects will contribute to improving knowledge about bird populations and supporting evidence-based conservation across the region.

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European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 (EBBA2)

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.

EBBA Live, develops the project further with aim to update data on species’ distributions on a more frequent basis, ensuring that they are harmonised across Europe.

https://www.ebba2.info/

PanEuropean Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS)

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)

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/