Greece

Greece News

  • eBird Essentials Course, Photos + Sound Quiz and more tools to make eBirding fun and meaningful!

    eBird, as well as the related mobile app and Merlin, offer us many opportunities to explore areas, species, media for information and inspiration for future birding! Opportunities are also given to see the results of the contribution of birdwatchers to science.

  • We welcome the first swallows in Greece!

    House Martins are the first members of the swallow family who come from Africa in spring, although for them it seems that spring starts in… February, since every year the first birds are observed even at the beginning of the traditionally coldest month of the year! They chose, as always, the best foraging sites after […]

  • eBird Greece: HOS/BirdLife Greece joins eBird!

    eBird is a Citizen Science project launched in 2002 by Cornell University. It is now one of the world’s best-known online databases of ornithological observations, with more than 75,000 users worldwide.

  • Monitoring Migratory Birds in Greece: Insights from Citizen Science

    Greece is a vital migration corridor for raptors and other soaring birds traveling between western Palearctic and Africa. Even though millions of migrating soaring bird species crossing the country annually, a nationwide systematic monitoring scheme is lacking, due to limited resources and complex geomorphology.