INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD Coordination mechanism & national expert panel model national expert panel model for the Bird Report in Spain

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD Diana Pérez-Aranda Serrano Technical assistance Ministry of Environment, Rural and Marine affairs General Directorate for Nature and Forest Policy Department of Biodiversity

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD 1.Spanish scenario 1.1 Geo-political & administrative territorial divisions 1.2 Environmental and Biodiversity aspects 2.How do we face the Bird Report process? (Spanish approach) 2.1 Bird inventories & monitoring programmes 2.2 Process & National Expert pannel Index

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD 1. SPANISH SCENARIO

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD 1.1 Geo-political & administrative territorial divisions 1. Spanish scenario u Divided in 17AA.RR + 2ac. u Complete authority on the: management, protection and conservation of the environment within its territory (eg.N2kNetwork) u MARM: - develops base legislation on Nature Conservation - coordinates AA.RR's actions at the national scale

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD 1.2 Environmental and Biodiversity aspects 1. Spanish scenario u Physical characteristics *The European environment – state and outlook 2010.EEA - Surface - Shape & geographic position - Orography - Geology - 2 insular territories u 4 Biogeographic regions u EU's highest number of taxa (<80.000)* and high number endemisms

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD 1.2 Environmental and Biodiversity aspects 1. Spanish scenario u Avian diversity 460 sub/species 340 reproductive sp. + migratory, on passage, occasional + non-native EU Bird Species Checklist ~ 540sp ~ 360 sp  peninsular Spain+Balearic Islands ~ 80 sp  Canary Islands

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD 1. Spanish scenario u In brief: - complex and regionally divided administrative regime - hundreds of bird species that we have to survey and guarantee their conservation u How we do it?

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD 2. HOW DO WE FACE THE BIRD REPORT PROCESS? (= Spanish approach)

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD 2.1 Bird inventories & Monitoring programmes 2. Spanish approach u Convention on Biological Diversity (1992) - Identify the components of its biological diversity. - Monitor the identified components. u Habitats Directive 92/43/CEE u Birds Directive 2009/147/CEE Assess Conservation status, 6years u Law on Natural Heritage & Biodiversity (2007): 6years: VU 3years: dEX

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD 2.1 Bird inventories & Monitoring programmes 2. Spanish approach u Spain and these committments: Close collaboration with: Conservation Associations, Universities, experts… u Birds: MARM   SEO/BirdLife executes Bird inventories & monitoring programmes at the NATIONAL SCALE periodically contrats coordinates

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD 2.1 Bird inventories & Monitoring programmes 2. Spanish approach u Atlas of reproductive sp. & RedBook BIRD INVENTORIES u Wintering waterbirds u Atlas of migratory sp. (projected) u Atlas of wintering sp. (2011) - distribution (10x10 utm grid) - population estimate - conservation status –IUCN- - main threats - census from distribution & population estimate, population trends ( ) 

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD 2.1 Bird inventories & Monitoring programmes 2. Spanish approach BIRD MONITORING PROGRAMMES - yearly updated information of a great number of sp. at NATIONAL SCALE - Coordinated by MARM & executed by SEO/BirdLife

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD Common sparrow 2.1 Bird inventories & Monitoring programmes 2. Spanish approach BIRD MONITORING PROGRAMMES = Common Reproductive Bird Annual Survey Allow to obtain population trends through annual census at the same stations, in spring (from 1996) Moderate decline From 2008, also in winter = population trends for common wintering birds

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD 2. Spanish approach BIRD MONITORING PROGRAMMES = Census of nocturnal birds Allow to obtain population trends through annual census at the same stations, from dic-jun (from ) 2.1 Bird inventories & Monitoring programmes

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD 2.1 Bird inventories & Monitoring programmes 2. Spanish approach BIRD MONITORING PROGRAMMES = Wintering waterbird census Once a year, in January In the frame of the International Waterfowl Census (IWC), coordinated by Wetlands International.

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD 2.1 Bird inventories & Monitoring programmes 2. Spanish approach BIRD MONITORING PROGRAMMES = Specific census - To update information on: Population size & distribution - From 2004  Monographs (36 = 203 sp) 20sp more projected < end 2012

INVENTARIO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD 2.2 Process & National Expert pannel 2. Spanish approach BIRD REPORT Integrative work to national trends + consultation Specific censusAcuatic birds National trends Periodically hires Coordinates 2 - exclusive to their territory - emblematic - N2KNetwork 3 Cientific Committee RD 139/2011 Nat. Experts - endangered & spec.protected sp. 4 Regional trends 1 AA.RR. W.F.F. Committee Methodological GUIDELINES

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