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The role of acoustic monitoring has advanced tremendously over the last 15 years and could transform bird monitoring. As with any new technology, it brings exciting new opportunities but also a range of challenges to be addressed in bird monitoring.

EBCC established the Acoustic Monitoring Group (AMOG) to address these developments and encourage knowledge exchange among its partner organisations. AMOG aims to coordinate, align, and integrate acoustic bird monitoring in Europe. More: www.ebcc.info/wp-content/u...

Responses from 32 European countries, indicate a strong interest in acoustic monitoring—most saw added value as a complementary tool for atlases and inventory surveys, for presence/absence data on species in remote areas, and for nocturnal, rare or hard-to-detect species.