{"id":9294,"date":"2025-04-25T07:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T07:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mes.org.mk\/en\/?p=9294"},"modified":"2025-04-25T10:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T10:07:50","slug":"bird-numbers-2025-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mes.org.mk\/en\/bird-numbers-2025-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bird Numbers 2025&#8221; conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mes.org.mk\/en\/bird-numbers-2025-conference\/iwc-coordinators-5-apr-25-img_9875\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9295\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9295\" src=\"http:\/\/mes.org.mk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/iwc-coordinators-5-apr-25-img_9875-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a>The &#8220;Bird Numbers 2025&#8221; conference, held in Riga, Latvia, from March 31 to April 4, 2025, brought together bird researchers and nature conservation experts from across Europe under the theme &#8220;Synergies in Monitoring for Conservation.&#8221; Key discussions addressed the integration of diverse data sources, such as national atlases and long-term surveys, with the aim of assessing population trends and developing effective strategies for the conservation of breeding birds in Europe. The conference also emphasized the role of citizen science in improving efforts to collect data on breeding birds and raising public awareness.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the conference hosted working meetings of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medwaterbirds.net\/page.php?id=35\"><u>Mediterranean Waterbird Network<\/u><\/a>, the coordinators of the International Waterbird Census led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wetlands.org\/knowledge-base\/international-waterbird-census\/\"><u>Wetlands International<\/u><\/a>, and a partner meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/eurobirdportal.org\/ebp\/en\/#home\/HIRRUS\/r52weeks\/CUCCAN\/r52weeks\/\"><u>European Bird Portal project<\/u><\/a> network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the Conference emphasis was placed on three topics \u2013 the use of advanced technologies such as automated acoustic monitoring in bird research, the use of online portals for collecting real-time bird data (providing immediate insight into the effects of climate change on habitat changes as well as on the changes in the distribution and size of the breeding bird populations), and the need for parallel development of conservation policies for breeding birds and their habitats that will result in appropriate and long-term protective effects. <span class=\"html-span xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt x1jfb8zj xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j\"><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u\" dir=\"auto\">With the growing number of professional and amateur bird researchers and birdwatchers, and the development of the national platform (website and app ptici.mk) for collecting bird data, MES is actively working to improve the breeding and migratory bird distribution and abundance in the country. The power of citizen science through the use of this platform is already delivering great results. MES has also already used and has experience with technologies aimed at researching birds of national or global conservation concern. The experiences from this conference have shown us that even better technologies are already available for field use, which the bird research team at MES will apply in future studies.<\/span><\/span>\u201d stated Danka Uzunova, representative of MES at the Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the Conference posters and the oral presentations <a href=\"https:\/\/birdnumbers2025.lu.lv\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/lu_portal\/birdnumbers2025.lu.lv\/abstract_book_250331.pdf\"><u>here<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Bird Numbers 2025&#8221; conference, held in Riga, Latvia, from March 31 to April 4, 2025, brought together bird researchers and nature conservation experts from across Europe under the theme &#8220;Synergies in Monitoring for Conservation.&#8221; Key discussions addressed the integration of diverse data sources, such as national atlases and long-term surveys, with the aim of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":9295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mes.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mes.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mes.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mes.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mes.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mes.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9298,"href":"https:\/\/mes.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294\/revisions\/9298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mes.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mes.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mes.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mes.org.mk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}