National coordinators, data providers and other key supporters

National coordinators:  Stoycho Stoychev¹, Volen Arkumarev¹

Active national coordinator: Stoycho Stoychev, e-mail: stoycho.stoychev@bspb.org

Main data providers: Georgi Popgeorgiev¹, Svetoslav Spasov¹, Iordan Hristov¹, Radoslav Stanchev², Petar Shurulinkov³, Vladimir Mladenov¹, Svilen Cheshmedzhiev¹, Mihail Iliev¹, Asen Ignatov^1,3, Dimitar Demerdzhiev¹, Georgi Dulev⁴, Kalin Velev¹, Viktor Vasilev⁵, Petar Iankov¹, Pencho Pandakov¹, Krasimir Kirov⁶, Henk Sierdsema⁷

¹Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB), ²Executive Environment Agency, ³National Museum of Natural History – Sofia, Bulgarian Academy of Science, ⁴Green Balkans, ⁵Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, ⁶Regional History Museum – Ruse (Ecomuseum & Aquarium), ⁷Sovon, Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology

Other key supporters: I. Angelov, K. Bedev, B. Borisov, G. Daskalova, A. Delchev, I. Dimchev, D. Dobrev, V. Dobrev, S. Dyulgerova, R. Georgieva, G. Gerdzhikov, G. Gradev, D. Gradinarov, G. Gruychev, D. Horal, H. Hristov, A. Irikov, I. Klisurov, E. Kmetova, N. Kolev, V. Koychev, I. Kutsarov, P. Lenrumé, I. Mateeva, D. Mitev, R. Moldovanski, Y. Muraveev, B. Nikolov, H. Peshev, N. Petkov, Ts. Petrov, D. Plachiyski, D. Popov, L. Profirov, A. Ralev, R. Raykov, M. Schäfer, A. Stamenov, P. Stankov, G. Stoyanov, E. Todorov, B. Tonchev, D. Wansink

National data sources contributing to EBBA2

SmartBirds is a national citizen science data base managed by the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) – BirdLife in Bulgaria

https://smartbirds.org/

Data sources and fieldwork years for EBBA2

The information is given in the table.

Acknowledgements

We thank to the following organizations that provided data sets:

Executive Environment Agency of Bulgaria

Sovon, Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology

Green Balkans

Fund for Wild Flora and Fauna

Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation

We are obliged to all observers that submit information to SmartBirds data base. Special thanks to the participants in the Bulgarian Common Bird Monitoring Scheme which systematically collated data were very valuable.

Our thanks goes also to BSPB – BirdLife Bulgaria administration and communication teams for their support.