Overview

"Bird Numbers 2025: Synergies in monitoring for conservation" conference programme overview, Riga, Latvia

Programme Overview

31 March (Monday):

 
  Arrivals
  Registration
15:00–18:00 PECBMS workshop
Evening Welcome event
 

1 April (Tuesday):

Morning Registration
9:00–9:15 Opening
9:15–10:15

Plenary
Birds of Latvia through times: the way to monitoring of county’s avifauna
Oskars Keišs, Ainārs Auniņš, Viesturs Ķerus
  Break
10:45–12:00 Parallel sessions
  Lunch
13:30–14:30

Afternoon plenary
Biodiversity monitoring context and directions in relation to EU policies
Nestor Fernandez
14:30–16:00 Poster session
  Break
16:30–18:00 Parallel sessions
18:00–20:00 EBP workshop
 

2 April (Wednesday)

9:00–10:00 Morning plenary
Using ornithological field data to predict rapid evolution of migration in response to climate change
Jane M. Reid
  Break 
10:30–12:00 Parallel sessions
  Lunch
13:30–15:00 Parallel sessions
15:00–16:00 EBCC Annual General Meeting
  Break
16:30–18:00 Parallel sessions
Evening Acoustic monitoring workshop (tbc)
 

3 April (Thursday)

Daytime Field excursions
Evening Conference dinner
 

4 April (Friday)

9:00–10:00

Morning plenary
Using bird data for conservation prioritisation
Heini Kujala
10:30–12:00 Parallel sessions
  Lunch
13:30–15:00 Parallel sessions
  Break
15:30–16:30 Plenary
The integration of data, the spirit of the EBCC and challenges for the future
Sergi Herrando
16:30–17:00 Closing of the conference

 

5 April (Saturday)

IWC workshop

 

Scientific Committee:

Dr. Aleksi Lehikoinen (Chair, Finland), Dr. Verena Keller (Switzerland), Dr. Dawn Balmer (United Kingdom), Dr. Ainārs Auniņš (Latvia), Dr. Sergi Herrando (Spain), Jean-Yves Paquet (Belgium), Petr Vořišek (Czech Republic)

 

Local Organising Committee:

Dr. Oskars Keišs, Dr. Ainārs Auniņš, Agnis Bušs, Antra Stīpniece, Edgars Lediņš, Ance Priedniece, Valts Jaunzemis