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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) [email protected]
Ruud Foppen [email protected]
David Noble [email protected]
Hans-Günther Bauer [email protected]
Lluis Brotons [email protected]
Mark Eaton [email protected]
Ian Burfield [email protected]
Mikhail Kalyakin [email protected]
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