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Bird Census News is the Journal of the European Bird Census Council (EBCC), which was established in 1992 when the International Bird Census Committee (IBCC) and the European Ornithological Atlas Committee (EOAC) merged.

Bird Census News gradually evolved from a typewritten photocopied leaflet to its present form. Rob Bijlsma (The Netherlands) was editor from 1987–1992, and Anny Anselin (Belgium) was editor for an incredible 25 years from 1993 to 2019. 

Anny Anselin with the first and the last issue of Bird Census News edited by her during 1993–2019.

In 2019–2023, Aleksi Lehikoinen (Finland), based at the Finnish Museum of Natural History, had edited six issues of the journal.

In 2023, Mark Eaton (UK) became the new BCN editor.

The publication of the journal has been possible by the financial support of SOVON, Beek-Ubbergen (1987–1992), and the Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Brussels (1993–today).

Bird Census News reports on the developments in census and atlas work in Europe, from the local to the continental scale, and provides a forum for discussion of methodological issues. A special section is dedicated to book reviews and these topics. And of course, you find in Bird Census News all information on the EBCC and its ongoing projects. The journal has been published two times a year: once in spring and once in autumn with about 40 pages per issue. Some issues are double-issues, published usually in the beginning of December.

Bird Census News will surely interest you! It is meant as a forum for everybody involved in bird census, monitoring, and atlas studies, from Iceland to Turkey and from Portugal to Russia and further. We invite you to use it for publishing news on your activities within this field.

Editor

Mark Eaton

21 Chapel Lands
Alnwick
Northumberland
NE66 1EL
United Kingdom
E-mail: mark.eaton.working@gmail.com

How to obtain Bird Census News

Recent volumes of BCN (starting with the volume 16/1 in 2003) are available in pdf in the Archive.

Submitting material for Bird Census News

Let us know in case you:

• have (preliminary) results of your regional or national atlas,
• have information on a monitoring campaign,
• have made a species-specific inventory,
• are a delegate and have some news on activities in your country,
• are planning an inventory and want people to know about this,
• have read an interesting (new) atlas or an article or report on census and you want to review it.

Instructions for Authors are available to download.