Eagles of Palearctic: study and conservation , Elabuga, 20-22 September 2013
Project EURAPMON and inventory of raptor monitoring schemes in Europe Al Vrezec, Maja Derlink, Chris Wernahm, Alessandro Andreotti, Irena Bertoncelj, Ian Burfield, Guy Duke, András Kovács, Paola Movalli, Luis Palma, Pertti Saurola, Janusz Sielicki, Ülo Väli
What is EURAPMON?
EURAPMON Research & monitoring for and with raptors in Europe
The Context of the Programme
• The need for sentinels • Raptors as sentinels • Timeliness of a raptor monitoring network • Limitations of existing networks, needs
Activities
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WP1 – Networking WP2 – Inventory WP3 – Identification of user needs WP4 – Prioritisation WP5 – Setting best practice WP6 – Capacity-building WP7 – Web-based database WP8 – Fundraising
Networking • • • • •
SC meetings Science meetings WP-related networking Online networking Network facilitation/ coordination
www.eurapmon.net
Inventory, user needs, prioritisation
• Inventory – Species, scales, periodicity – HR, facilities, capacities
• User needs assessment – What data, format, delivery mechanism/cycle
• Setting priorities – Priority species, scales, frequencies, outputs – Priority pressures, contaminants, tissues
Best practice • Monitoring for – Guidelines, protocols, data management and reporting, statistical approaches
• Monitoring with – Guidelines, protocols, analytical QA & QC, data management & reporting, intercalibration, statistical approaches
Capacity-building
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Where key skills held Where training most needed Priority skills needed Methods for knowledge transfer Exchange visits
Database • Development of database specs: – stock-take existing raptor data, databases – end-user needs – BirdLife, EC, national governments – types and range of information to collate at European level – collation, reporting issues – workplan, budget
Communications, funding
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Website www.eurapmon.net Brochure Specific publications and special issues of journals (e.g. Acrocephalus) Development of related initiatives - e.g. EU FP7 collaborations
Preliminary Results of Inventory of Existing Raptor Monitoring Schemes in Europe Murcia, Spain, February 2012
28 European countries
Austria
Greece
Slovenia
Belarus
Hungary
Spain
Belgium
Ireland
Sweden
Bosnia and Herzegovina Italy Latvia Bulgaria Croatia
Malta
Czech Republic
Norway
Estonia
Poland
Finland
Portugal
France
Romania
Georgia
Russia
Germany
Slovakia
United Kingdom
Questions to National Coordinators 1. Main players 2. National coverage 3. Key issues 4. Weaknesses and gaps 5. Priorities, capacity building
Power Point Presentations – published at EURAPMON website http://www.eurapmon.net/ Accompanying papers – published in journal Acrocephalus (overview paper: Vrezec et al. 2012, 33 (154/155): 145-157)
Ministry
Main players International collaboration Existing raptor monitoring network in Europe
Comprehensive inventory of existing monitoring activities for raptors Questionnaire on the monitoring for raptors (235 programs, 1180 schemes)
Falco peregrinus
Falco tinnunculus
Buteo buteo
Aquila chrysaetos
Accipiter nisus
Strix aluco
Number of active programs per year (N = 235 programs)
Bubo Participation of volunteers in bubo the monitoring of raptors
Number of breeding monitoring schemes per species belonging to a conservation group. Only programs active after year 2000 are included (N = 233).
Falconiformes / Strigiformes U=306, ns
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What is raptor?
EURAPMON
Traditionally: Birds of prey (Falconiformes) (i.e. ordo Accipitres; Hartert 1912) Ecologically: top predators including birds of prey (Falconiformes) and owls (Strigiformes) (i.e. special Ambio issue from 2008) Journal of Raptor Research: birds of prey (Falconiformes), owls (Strigiformes) and shrikes (Laniidae) (following old taxonomy of ordo Accipitres by Linnaeus 1758) Broader sense of predaceus birds: birds of prey (Falconiformes), owls (Strigiformes), shrikes (Laniidae) and some corvids (Corvidae) (e.g. Hardey et al. 2009)
Birds of prey (Falconiformes)
Owls (Strigiformes)
Shrikes (Laniidae)
Corvids (Corvidae)
The Programme
Objectives
1. 2. 3. 4.
Europe-wide network for monitoring for and with raptors Consensus on Europewide priorities, needs Spread best practices, build capacities Web-based database, inter-operable data, analytical outputs for user needs