The Czech Society for Ornithology has announced that the Bird of the Year for 2023 is the common pochard, whose population has dropped by a third over the past 30 years.
The Czech Society for Ornithology has named the European greenfinch Bird of the Year 2022. The bird is currently facing hard times with population numbers declining.
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Europe’s breeding bird populations have shifted on average 1 kilometer north every year for the past three decades, likely driven by the climate crisis, according to one of the world’s largest citizen science projects on biodiversity.
The
European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 (
EBBA2) provides the most detailed picture yet of the distribution of the continent’s birds, after 120,000 volunteers and field-workers surveyed 11 million square kilometers, from the Azores in the west to the Russian Urals in the east.
The book documents changes in the range of Europe’s 539 native bird species in the 30 years since the first