Action D.4: Monitoring the impact of management on Annex I birds

This action aims at monitoring the impact of the proposed interventions on the populations of Alectoris graeca, Dryocopus martius, Dendrocopos leucotos, Picus canus and Aegolius funerus, according to the specifications produced by Action A.9, in order to evaluate population status and the results of conservation actions.

Monitoring will be conducted by two ornithologists, on a part-time basis, who will visit the area of interest at least three times per year (before, during and after the breeding season). The duration of monitoring will be 2-3 years depending on the time of initiation of action C.8; it will start in the third or the fourth year of the project (before the breeding season), after the implementation of conservation interventions for at least one breeding season, and will be completed at the end of the project.