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EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds

Dataset homepage

Citation

Hagemeyer W, Blair M, Loos W (2016). EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds. Version 1.3. European Bird Census Council (EBCC). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/adtfvf accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-08-14.

Description

In 1997 the EBCC Atlas of European breeding birds, also referred to as European Ornithological Atlas or 'EOA', was published. This voluminous book was the result of more than 25 years of fieldwork, cooperation, data gathering, data processing, writing and editing. Next to a beautiful book the data in the maps provides countless possibilities fur further studies on the distribution of the European breeding birds.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Europe, 1972-1995. Data collection periods vary per country but all lie in the mentioned period. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps more than a million, hours of fieldwork are the basis of this Atlas.

Sampling

In some countries, fieldwork for this Atlas and their national atlas was combined; in others data from an independent national atlas project were used to provide dfata for this Atlas. Methods used in the field ranged from single visits to systematic surveys based on point- or line-transects or territory mapping on plots.

Quality Control

It was planned that Atlas fieldwork should take place during 1985-1988. Nations organized their own fieldwork, however, and because of practical difficulties could not all meet that timescale. Where coverage was incomplete for the survey period, earlier or later data were evaluated to determine whether coverage or quality could be improved by including them.

Method steps

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Taxonomic Coverages

All birds
  1. Aves
    common name: Birds rank: class

Geographic Coverages

For defining the area of intended coverage, this atlas uses the base map of "Atlas Florae Europaeae" (Jalas & Suominen 1972, 1988) except that it includes Novaya Zembla, Franz Josef Land, all the Greek islands close to mainland Turkey, the Madeiran archipelago, the Azores, the Stavropol region of south-western Russia and the Caucasus republics.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. E J M Hagemeijer and M J Blair (Editors). 1997. The EBCC Atlas of European Breeding Birds: Their Distribution and Abundance. T & A D Poyser, London. -

Contacts

Ward Hagemeyer
originator
position: Editor
EBCC
NL
Michael Blair
originator
position: Editor
EBCC
GB
Willy-Bas Loos
metadata author
position: DBA
SOVON Dutch Center for Field Ornithology
Toernooiveld 1
Nijmegen
6525 ED
Telephone: +31 247410410
email: willy-bas.loos@sovon.nl
homepage: http://www.sovon.nl
Ruud Foppen
owner
position: Chairman
EBCC
P.O. Box 6521
Nijmegen
6503 GA
email: ruud.foppen@sovon.nl
homepage: http://www.ebcc.info
Willy-Bas Loos
administrative point of contact
position: DBA
SOVON
Toernooiveld 1
Nijmegen
6525 ED
Gelderland
NL
Telephone: +31247410410
email: willy-bas.loos@sovon.nl
homepage: http://www.sovon.nl
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