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The bird fauna of the Brussels Region includes more than 250 species, including 120 breeders or former breeders. Trends in species richness parallel those observed in other areas with a predominance of urban and suburban habitats. Characteristic in particular are the frequent increase in large species, forest species and sedentary species, linked to conservation attitudes, ageing of parks and garden plantations, winter feeding, and the universal decrease of species dependent on open spaces, ecotones, transitional vegetation stages, on the one hand, to traditional architecture, on the other hand.

Work related to birds conducted by the Conservation Biology Section, its staff and collaborators in the Brussels Region cover many aspects of distribution, trends and ecology. The results have, for the most part, been included in publications pertaining to more extensive areas that include the region, although the underlying field work has often been conducted in Brussels. We have drawn on the experience gathered in the course of these activities to compile the list of species presented online. In recent years, some studies have concentrated on introduced birds and their impact on the flora and fauna, a phenomenon that presents unique characteristics within an urban context. Provisional results obtained with one of the most characteristic of these species within the Region, the Egyptian Goose, Alopochen aegyptiacus, have been placed online. Other references can be found in the list of publications. The photographic database of the Section includes a number of documents of ornithological interest obtained within the region, some of which are available online. They are listed below.

List of birds of the Brussels Region. The list includes all species of birds that have been recorded within the political boundaries of the Brussels Region, with a brief characterisation of status, and notes on selected species.

LIST

Reports on introduced species: eco-ethology of Egyptian Geese. Provisional overviews of studies conducted on the eco-ethology and population dynamics of the introduced Egyptian Goose, Alopochen aegyptiacus, within the Brussels Region. In French.

ALOPOCHEN

Photographic documents. A set of photographs of birds of the Brussels Region or their habitats. Documents are presently available online for a limited number of species. They constitute a small extract of the photographic database of the Section of Conservation Biology.

PHOTOS

Publications. A list of publications by staff members and collaborators of the Section of Conservation Biology that pertain to birds of the Brussels Region.

PUBLICATIONS