Workshop EBBA2

Towards a new European

Breeding Bird Atlas

EBBA2

Main activities and achievements

Verena Keller

Chair of the Atlas Steering Committee

Caceres 2010: Atlas Workshop

« Just do it! »

2010: Russian Atlas

• 2010 Proposal from Mikhail Kalyakin

• 2011 Pilot study

• 2012/13 Fieldwork starting

2011: EBBA2 Steering Committee

Working group within the EBCC board

Verena Keller (Chair) verena.keller@vogelwarte.ch

Ruud Foppen ruud.foppen@sovon.nl

David Noble david.noble@bto.org

Hans-Günther Bauer bauer@orn.mpg.de

Lluis Brotons lluis.brotons@ctfc.es

Mark Eaton mark.eaton@rspb.org.uk

Ian Burfield ian.burfield@birdlife.org

Mikhail Kalyakin kalyakin@zmmu.msu.ru

2011-2013: EBBA2 Steering Committee

•2011: works starts on project proposal, methodology, collaboration

with other projects (i.e. European Red Lists)

•2011-2013: 8 meetings

2011: Questionnaires to EBCC delegates

2012: «Coordination unit»

• Call to network: who could host an atlas coordinator?

• Problem: lack of funds

• Solution (interim): Spreading the work:

Petr Vorisek (Czech Ornithological Society)

Sergi Herrando (Catalan Ornithological Institute)

Daniel Hayhow (RSPB): support with fundraising

Verena Keller (Swiss Ornithological Institute)

2012: EBBA2 on the EBCC website

2012: Documents for downloading

2013: Documents for downloading: grids

2012-13: Strengthening the network

2012

•Workshop Mikulov

(BirdLife European Red-List)

2013

•Bilateral support to national

coordinators

•112 contacts from 46 countries

•First visits from foreign observers

2013: Workshop Barcelona

• National coordinators from countries that had indicated a need for

support

• 40 participants from >20 countries

• Focus: data collection at national level, national atlases

2013: Progress on Methodology

Promotion and information

• International and national conferences (e.g. ECCB Glasgow, EOU

Norwich)

• Short project information

• Leaflet

Fundraising

• Contacts to potential sponsors

• Develop project proposal

Funding 2012-2013

Coordination

•EBCC project income (PECBMS, SCALES)

•Swiss Ornithological Institute

•British Trust for Ornithology

Workshop Barcelona

•City of Barcelona

•Government of Catalonia

•RSPB

In-kind contributions

•RSPB

•Organisations represented in Steering Committee

The EBCC: how we work

• Network

• Not a top-down approach

• Enthusiasm – dedication to

a common goal