Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS)
Population indices for 170 breeding bird species across 28 European countries, produced by ~15,000 volunteers counting birds with standardised protocols every year.
- Size
- 1.3 MB
- Format
- CSV, XLSX
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
- Access
- Open Access
- Source
- Zenodo (record 4590199)
License note: Use open subset only; ES/CY 2016-17 restricted
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Challenge
Are Europe's farmland birds faring worse than its forest birds? Compare population trends across species groups over the available years.
- Where to start
- Load the indices CSV (use the open subset only — see the license note). Group species by habitat if a habitat field exists, or by a small manual grouping, and average their indices per year.
- What to share
- A chart comparing the grouped trends and a short conclusion about which group is declining faster.
Share your results and questions in the forum. Challenges are open-ended — there's no single right answer.