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The results of the latest completed EBCC Small Grant Fund project from Serbia are in! We are proud to have supported the work of @Birdlife Serbia, which has collected invaluable data that will enrich the upcoming Atlas of Breeding Birds of Serbia. More: www.ebcc.info/small-grant-...
Could it be a Quail year? We've seen a big increase in reports of this elusive migrant gamebird in the last two weeks. Reports don't usually peak until late June, so it will be interesting to see whether the influx continues into the summer #ukbirding
The call is open to everyone interested in joining; however, in the event of a vote, only EBCC delegates have the right to vote.
Join us online, on June 16th 19 CEST at the EBCC Annual General Meeting! We will present to the EBCC delegates, national partners, and interested parties the work from the past year (Chair's report), and EBCC projects: PECBMS, EBBA Live Farmland &EBP. Register here: forms.gle/ETg3KspqpF9X...
The final countdown! If you happen to be placed in one of the 13 countries in SE Europe, join our final complete list collection weekend challenge on June 6-7th! More about the challenge, countries, national partners and their on-line portals is available here: eurobirdportal.org/ebp/en/seeli...
Limitations of acoustic recordings include variable species detection accuracy (for 34 species with 50 or more calls detected manually, the proportion of BirdNET detections ranged widely from 0 to 73%). There is still the need for validation and calibration against human surveys.
Acoustic data had a varying degree of correlation of call rates with BBS counts, depending on species, number of years, and spatial scale (e.g. BirdNet call rate for Skylarks was positively correlated with 5-year mean BBS count; for other species, correlations were improved by filtering)
On the 2nd weekend in May, we organised a region-wide, complete list data-collection weekend across 13 countries in SE Europe. Since the start of the year, our partnership has collected approx 38,500 complete lists, surpassing records from previous years for the same time period! shorturl.at/XJvPN
A study led by Wilson and colleagues at the @British Trust for Ornithology compared acoustic recording data (using the automated classifier BirdNET) with Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) counts. Volunteers deployed acoustic recorders within 28 of their 1-km BBS squares in Scotland. shorturl.at/1CZxn
