11 November was the day when the Romanian Ornithological Society and the Milvus Group organised the 14th Annual Monitoring Meeting. After a break of two years, this event was reorganized in the presence of specialists from all over the country.  The amphitheatre in the building in Mikó-garden of the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca was filled with bird lovers curious about the monitoring programmes being carried out in Romania.

Traditionally, the conference series started with a presentation of the Common Bird Monitoring Programme. The programme coordinator, Cristi Domșa, briefly presented the main milestones of the programme from 2006 to the present, and then described in more detail the results of this year’s monitoring.

In addition to birds, other taxonomic groups monitoring projects were also presented, targeting butterflies, praying mantises and meadow vipers.

Members of the Milvus Group gave several presentations. Papp Edgár presented the synchronous monitoring of the Red-footed Falcon and monitoring of nocturnal species, Szabó D. Zoltán talked about the study of songbirds in the Făgăraș Mountains and the importance of citizen science projects, Sos Tibor presented the recently started monitoring of the meadow viper, Marton Attila presented the main results of the ringing camp on the Chituc Spit. The last speaker was Daróczi J. Szilárd, who reviewed the rare species encountered in the last couple of years.