Species probably an irregular breeder in Finland (and hence the EU as a whole), rather than a regular, albeit very rare, breeding species (A. Lehikoinen in litt., October 2014), so EU population status assessment based solely on winter data.

In the absence of a report from Greece for this taxon, surrogate data were provided by the Hellenic Ornithological Society (HOS), the BirdLife Partner in Greece, indicating a winter population of 1394–7582 individuals, with an increasing trend (4%) during 2004–2013 and an unknown trend during 1982–2013.