European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 (1 Viewer)

[opisska]

Great, they delivered!

 

[Steppe Lark]

Thanks for this, much appreciated

Only in Russian, no English summaries I am afraid. Very interesting text (at least for birdwatchers / ornithologists familiar with Russia, probably not so much for others) but the maps are essentially the same as in EBBA2 since produced from exact same data and methodologies (although the Russian Atlas maps extend a tiny bit further into the Asian side of the Urals, and they use different size dots rather than shading to display different abundances - which I actually prefer). If you write to the Russian organizers probably you can get a copy (or maybe not so easy now to get mail from Russia?). Should add that many of the species accounts for birds breeding in the EBBA2 territory only - or mostly - within European Russia are authored by the same person/people in both the Russian and EBBA2 atlases. So for those species, and there are quite a few of them obviously, given that the maps are essentially just different representations of the same data across the two, there is not much info in the Russian atlas you will not be able to find in the main EBBA2 atlas. It is for the other species, ie those not so restricted in the area to Russia, that most of the more interesting differences can be found.

 

[Zoologist from the Med.]

Nothing prevents continuing to sell a beautiful bibliophile tome with glossy paper, nice pictures, etc., and put the content online, where it can reach many people involved in land management etc., and be linked to geographical maps, maps of land use etc. They are largely separate groups of people: libraries and nature book collectors; and internet users.

Imagine that EBBA makes an app and website: which birds live around your home? And essentially, offers the EBBA data linked to the location of the computer. It could be a single most popular promotion of bird conservation in Europe ever.

Perhpas it would. But a very difficult and costly one at that!!. I think it would be more feasible that the Collins bird guide would be put online on PCs etc. as an interactive field guide on the internet, which presumably would be planned and financed by HarperCollins and/or Bonnier Fakta.

 

[T.O.]

Perhpas it would. But a very difficult and costly one at that!!. I think it would be more feasible that the Collins bird guide would be put online on PCs etc. as an interactive field guide on the internet, which presumably would be planned and financed by HarperCollins and/or Bonnier Fakta.

Maybe have a look here

European Breeding Bird Atlas

The European Breeding Bird Atlas is one of the most ambitious biodiversity mapping projects ever done. A total of 596 breeding bird species in Europe. A collaboration across political borders strengthening a network of 120,000 people and organisations who worked together in one of the biggest...

ebba2.info

 

[Zoologist from the Med.]

Maybe have a look here

European Breeding Bird Atlas

The European Breeding Bird Atlas is one of the most ambitious biodiversity mapping projects ever done. A total of 596 breeding bird species in Europe. A collaboration across political borders strengthening a network of 120,000 people and organisations who worked together in one of the biggest...

ebba2.info

Yes you're right......(somewhat).