BirdLife Austria
| BirdLife Austria | |
|---|---|
| legal form |
Association ( ZVR : 093531738) |
| founding | 1953 |
| Seat | Vienna |
| precursor | Austrian ornithological station |
| purpose | Use and project work in bird and nature conservation |
| Chair | Wilhelm Firbas (President), Eva Piehslinger (Vice President) |
| Employees | 18th |
| Website | www.birdlife.at |
BirdLife Austria is the Austrian partner of BirdLife International .
BirdLife Austria describes its main tasks as scientific research as the basis for successful nature conservation , preservation of the Austrian bird sanctuaries , informing the public and lobbying .
The non-profit association was founded in 1953 as the Austrian Ornithological Institute , until 1993 it was called the Austrian Society for Ornithology . According to its own information, BirdLife Austria is the largest and only nationwide organization for bird protection and ornithology in the country.
Activities and projects
One focus of the past few years has been the updating of the breeding bird atlas from 1993. From 2013 to 2017, over 1000 volunteers collected data and entered it into the ornitho.at portal.
Monitoring projects
BirdLife Austria has been running monitoring projects for years to get reliable information about the condition of the birds. Winter waterbird populations have been counted since the 1950s. The data is also included in the International Water Bird Census (IWC) . The Austria-wide recording of the white stork population is also a long-term inventory project.
Since 1998, breeding bird monitoring has been used to monitor the populations of more frequent Austrian breeding bird species. For this purpose, counting takes place twice a spring at fixed metering points throughout Austria. Inventory trends are calculated from the counting results, which provide information on increases or decreases. From this, the Farmland Bird Index for the birds of the cultivated landscape is calculated from 22 typical species ; a Woodland Bird Index for forest birds is in development.
Since 2010, BirdLife Austria has been organizing the Winter Birds Hour on January 6th together with the State Association for Bird Protection in Bavaria (LBV) and, since 2011, also with the Nature Conservation Association Germany (NABU) . The most important counting date is the midwinter counting in January, in some federal states there are further monthly counts.
Swallows have been recorded across Austria since 2018.
Conservation projects
BirdLife Austria is a partner in the international protection project for the imperial eagle Pannoneagle, which ranges from eyrie protection to reducing the illegal pursuit of birds of prey. There are other projects on the red kite , saker falcon , birds in the cultural landscape, gray geese on Lake Neusiedl or urban birding in Vienna.
Publications
BirdLife Austria is the publisher of the scientific journal Egretta .
literature
- Nora Wurzinger: Continuity and Change. Birdlife Austria (1953-2002) - an association between knowledge and science . In: Wissenschaft ist jung, Vol. 10, 2010, pp. 132–147.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.ornitho.at
- ↑ Monitoring at www.birdlife.at
- ↑ Swallow counting at www.birdlife.at
- ↑ PANNONEAGLE
- ↑ International Imperial Eagle Protection Project
- ↑ Our work on www.birdlife.at