EuroBirdPortal in a new version: bird movements on maps updated every day
For anyone who watches birds in autumn, I have good news. On 29 September, OTOP announced a new version of the EuroBirdPortal (EBP) browser, available at eurobirdportal.org/pol/pl. For the first time it covers all bird species that regularly occur in Europe.
On animated maps updated daily, you can follow almost 600 species: 477 that occur naturally in the EU, 32 introduced species with self-sustaining breeding populations, and 58 selected vagrant species. Since 2010, 750 million observations have entered the database, 76 million of them in 2026. Data from 21 platforms flows into the shared database every day, built by a network of 52 ornithological organisations from 41 countries.
The Polish partner is OTOP, which runs the ornitho.pl portal and is the main eBird partner in Poland. The first version of EBP was created in 2015, and since 2019 it has run in "near real time" with a one-day delay. The expansion was financed by the EU's LIFE programme under the project "LIFE EBP Reinforcement".
A practical point: the maps can be compared with the previous year, placed side by side, shared on social media and embedded on websites. The text shows, for example, the autumn crane migration this season and last, which is very timely right now.
What pleases me most is the emphasis that more than 200,000 volunteers across Europe stand behind these maps, entering their observations into ornitho and eBird. Every report from an ordinary observer really adds to that picture of migration, and that is probably the best argument for reporting common species too.
Source: OTOP
On animated maps updated daily, you can follow almost 600 species: 477 that occur naturally in the EU, 32 introduced species with self-sustaining breeding populations, and 58 selected vagrant species. Since 2010, 750 million observations have entered the database, 76 million of them in 2026. Data from 21 platforms flows into the shared database every day, built by a network of 52 ornithological organisations from 41 countries.
The Polish partner is OTOP, which runs the ornitho.pl portal and is the main eBird partner in Poland. The first version of EBP was created in 2015, and since 2019 it has run in "near real time" with a one-day delay. The expansion was financed by the EU's LIFE programme under the project "LIFE EBP Reinforcement".
A practical point: the maps can be compared with the previous year, placed side by side, shared on social media and embedded on websites. The text shows, for example, the autumn crane migration this season and last, which is very timely right now.
What pleases me most is the emphasis that more than 200,000 volunteers across Europe stand behind these maps, entering their observations into ornitho and eBird. Every report from an ordinary observer really adds to that picture of migration, and that is probably the best argument for reporting common species too.
Source: OTOP
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