Bird Numbers 2019 – Programme

Bird Numbers 2019 Programme

GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

14:00

Arrival & registration

16:00

 Workshop Bird monitoring, decision making and public policies

18:00

Jaime Ramos
Plenary session
The road to travel: from population level studies to functional ecology and conservation

20:00

Dinner (free)

GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

9:00

Opening session

9:30

Frank Vassen
Plenary session
Importance of Bird Data for EU Nature Policies – Past, Present and Future?

10:15

Coffee break

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GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

11:00

Petr Voříšek
Using standardised EBBA2 data on farmland birds to inform EU policies

11:15

Jean-Yves Paquet
High resolution breeding bird atlas as a tool for prioritizing conservation actions: agri-environment schemes adequacy to farmland bird conservation in Wallonia

11:30

Zuzana Musilova
Wintering waterbirds´ important sites for species protection and in the light of the conflict species issue

11:45

Diego Pavón
Climate-driven changes in waterbird abundances in Europe and North Africa. are protected areas and IBAs keeping up?

12:00

Joana Figueiredo Santana
Trends of Mediterranean grassland birds under land use and climate changes

SMALL AUDITORIUM (ROOM 131A)

11:00

Pietro Milanesi
Modelling the distribution of breeding birds for the second european breeding bird atlas EBBA2

11:15

Peter van Horssen
A hierarchical bayesian species distribution model (sdm) for common scoters in dutch coastal waters

11:30

Henk Sierdsema
Mapping hotspots for bird biodiversity

11:45

Coppée Thomas
High resolution mapping of population dynamics in breeding birds in Wallonia (Southern Belgium)

12:25

CANTEEN (ROOM 129)

Lunch

GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

14:00

Gitte Høj Jensen
Monitoring in the context of the AEWA European Goose Management Platform

14:15

Pedro J. Leitão
Influence of bird traits on their responses to forest structure

14:30

Korhan Ozkan
The response of temperate forest bird communities of Istranca mountains to decadal forestry activities

14:45

Sanna Mäkeläinen
Effects of Finnish environmental impact assessment process on birds

15:00

Javier Rivas Salvador
Spatial patterns in habitat specialization of european bird communities

15:15

Lechosław Kuczyński
Using bird monitoring data to test competition-driven niche divergence

15:30

Petr Musil
Waterfowl population trends are driven by food strategy regardless of climate change

15:45

Susanne Jähnig
Impacts of microclimate on the distribution of birds in an alpine environment

SMALL AUDITORIUM (ROOM 131A)

14:00

Samuel Wechsler
Automating the analysis of territory mapping data in bird monitoring

14:15

Alexander Solokha
Monitoring of wintering duck populations in Krasnodar province, Russia

14:30

Sarah Harris
Introducing upland rovers to the breeding bird survey and investigating potential impacts

14:45

Paul van Els
Counts of avian communal roosts to assess local population size

15:00

Teresa Frost
Producing winter waterbird estimates for Great Britain

15:15

Preben Clausen
Lessons learned by comparing results from nation-wide waterbird monitoring to results from a reduced site network , aka. “when counting birds only counts if you count them all!”

15:30

Thomas Sattler
The estimation of Swiss breeding bird populations reveals major changes over 20 years

GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

16:05

GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

Gabriel Gargallo
Eurobirdportal – live EPB viewer launch

16:30

POSTER ROOM (ROOM 124)

Poster session + light coffee break

18:15

COFFEE BREAK ROOM

Side event
Welcome to Portugal by Companhia das Lezírias: wine taste

19:00

GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

Side event
Welcome to Portugal by Companhia das Lezírias: fado concert

20:00

Dinner (free)

GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

08:45

Becki Lawson
Plenary session
Disease as a driver of wild bird population declines – how do we quantify the impact?

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GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

09:30

MARC HERREMANS
Recent impact of Usutu virus on birds in Belgium

09:45

ROB ROBINSON
Long-term seasonal survival in a Swiss population of Alpine Swifts

10:00

TIBOR SZÉP
Decline of the long distance migrant Sand Martin in Hungary – the role of migration and breeding

SMALL AUDITORIUM (ROOM 131A)

09:30

ANDREEA CIOBOTĂ
Acoustic adaptations of city Blackbirds: a bioindicator for urban parks in Romania

09:45

TIAGO MARQUES
Estimating bird density from single automatic passive acoustic recorders

10:15

Coffee break

GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

11:00

PRIMOŽ KMECL
The publishing of the New Ornithological Atlas of Slovenia: the results and lessons learnt

11:15

NORBERT TEUFELBAUER
Mapping breeding bird distributions in an alpine country – methods, obstacles and preliminary results of the 2nd Austrian Atlas

11:30

CHRIS VAN TURNHOUT
The new Dutch Bird Atlas and beyond

11:45

PETER KNAUS
The Swiss Breeding Bird Atlas 2013–2016

12:00

CHARLOTTE MOSHØJ
The third Danish Bird Atlas – changes in species distribution, densities, and abundance

SMALL AUDITORIUM (ROOM 131A)

11:00

CATRIONA MORRISON
Integrating large-scale citizen science data to reveal the drivers of population change in long-distance migratory birds

11:15

RICARDO TOMÉ
Long-term monitoring of soaring birds migration in Southwest Portugal

11:30

KASPER THORUP
Willow Warblers on the wintering grounds in West Africa

11:45

STEPHEN BAILLIE
The Eurasian African Migration Atlas – a new synthesis of ringing and tracking data

12:00

JEREMY DUPUY
The French National Atlas of Migratory Birds: a multi-scale approach to apprehend the migration of birds in France

12:25

CANTEEN (ROOM 129)

Lunch

GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

14:00

Annual general meeting

15:30

Coffee break

GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

16:15

MIKHAIL KALYAKIN
Atlas of breeding birds of European part of Russia: first preliminary results

16:30

SERGI HERRANDO
Quantifying change in species distribution between the two European breeding bird atlases. Approach and first results

16:45

VERENA KELLER
European Breeding Bird Atlas 2: the final results emerge

17:00

TATIANA KUZMENKO
European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 in Ukraine

17:15

SILVIA URSUL
Moldova’s contribution within the EBBA2

SMALL AUDITORIUM (ROOM 131A)

16:15

JOCELYN CHAMPAGNON
Differential detection of wintering waterfowl during aerial and terrestrial surveys in Camargue, a methodological approach

16:30

MARTIN POOT
Calculating trends in seabirds numbers in the Dutch part of the North Sea based on aerial monitoring

16:45

NELE MARKONES
Baltic Sea waterbird trends based on IWC vs. offshore line transect surveys: match or mismatch?

17:00

KAI BORKENHAGEN
Evaluation of three different survey methods for monitoring common scoters in offshore waters

17:15

THOMAS ESKE HOLM
Behaviour of breeding waterbirds during monitoring with UAVs

SMALL AUDITORIUM (ROOM 131A)

18:00

Workshop EBBA2

18:15

Side event
Visit to the Painted Houses (16th century frescoes) and Palace of São Miguel by Fundação Eugénio de Almeida

20:00

Dinner (free)

07:45

FIELD TRIPS – departure

18:30

FIELD TRIPS – arrival

19:00

Conference Dinner

GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

08:45

Daniel Burgas
Plenary session
Engaging indigenous people in bird monitoring

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GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

09:30

MAGNE HUSBY
On the importance of more qualified ornithologists, and BirdID in progress

09:45

FOURNET SAMUEL
The Afribirds experience: upscaling common bird monitoring in Africa via the UNESCO networks of Biosphere Reserves

10:00

SIMON WOTTON
Establishing national bird population monitoring schemes in Africa

SMALL AUDITORIUM (ROOM 131A)

09:30

GIANPIERO CALVI
Comparing conservation status of common farmland breeding birds in different agricultural systems

09:45

JOÃO LEITE FARIA
Ten years after – a look into the effects of habitat fragmentation on Mediterranean farmland birds

10:00

SVEN TRAUTMANN
Drivers of population change in common farmland birds in Germany

10:15

Coffee break

GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

11:00

LLUIS BROTONS
Precipitation deficit or increased warming? Which one is driving the impact of climate change on Mediterranean bird populations?

11:15

THOMAS GALEWSKI
Conservation of wintering waterbirds in the Mediterranean: State, threats and effectiveness of conservation measures

11:30

SYLVAIN ANTONIAZZA
Rapid changes in elevational and latitudinal distributions of breeding bird abundances in Switzerland

11:45

SIRKE PIIRAINEN
Predicting the effect of climate change Fennoscandian birds

12:00

ALEKSI LEHIKOINEN
Wintering bird communities are better tracking climate change than breeding communities in Europe and North America

SMALL AUDITORIUM (ROOM 131A)

11:00

ZDENĚK VERMOUZEK
Information technologies in a new citizen science bird monitoring scheme: methodological advances and first results

11:15

PHILIPP BOERSCH-SUPAN
Population trend estimation from semi-structured citizen science data

11:30

KARINE PRINCE
Capitalizing on opportunistic data to refine bird population trend estimates

11:45

RUI LOURENÇO
Successes, limitations and future prospects in assessing population trend and distribution of owls and nightjars using citizen science

12:00

MENNO HORNMAN
Mallard population decrease in the Netherlands, why? Exploring population dynamics of Mallard and Gadwall

12:25

CANTEEN (ROOM 129)

Lunch

GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

14:00

ÅKE LINDSTRÖM
Population trends and breeding distribution of waders on their boreal and arctic breeding grounds in Northern Europe

14:15

ALEXANDER MISCHENKO
Population trends of birds in European Russia: results of the project ’European Red List of Birds’

14:30

GÜVEN EKEN
Trends of globally significant bird congregations in Turkey

14:45

SARA FRAIXEDAS
Birds as indicators of wetland conservation in Europe

15:00

AINARS AUNINS
Bird population trends in the Baltic Sea – which traits set winners and losers?

15:15

ENYA O’REILLY
Identifying species pools for indicator species selection

15:30

OSKARS KEISS
30 seasons of Corncrake monitoring in Latvia 1989–2018: experience with volunteers, trends and population estimates

15:45

CARLOS GODINHO
Monitoring schemes in Portugal, trends, challenges, and future

SMALL AUDITORIUM (ROOM 131A)

14:00

ALBERT DE JONG
Year of the….: how starring a species can boost knowledge and conservation

14:15

DARIO MASSIMINO
Project Owl: long-term monitoring of a nocturnal species of national conservation concern

14:30

WESLEY HOCHACHKA
Increasing the accessibility and value of citizen science data

14:45

DAVID MARTI PINO
The role of on-line tools for the management of data for the second European Breeding Bird Atlas

15:00

GABRIEL GARGALLO
The new real-time version of the EuroBirdPortal viewer

15:15

DAWN BALMER
Using citizen science to estimate numbers of UK House Martins and investigate factors affecting productivity

15:30

DAVID GONÇALVES
A citizen science approach to monitor wintering woodcock

15:45

ROMAIN LORRILLIERE
Bird feeder attendance during winter investigate with a new and original citizen sciences scheme BirdLab

16:00

Coffee break

GRAND AUDITORIUM (ROOM 102)

16:45

RUUD FOPPEN
Plenary Session
Thinking big: EBCC’s future in developing citizen ornithology at a continental scale

17:30

Closing Session

18:00

WORKSHOP PECBMS

20:00

Dinner (free)

SMALL AUDITORIUM (ROOM 131A)

09:00 – 13:00

WORKSHOP
International Waterbird Census

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