Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, is a species of day-flying bird of prey found in woodland and forest and urban ecosystems. It is a widespread breeder across most of Europe. It mainly inhabits forest, although preferring this to be interspersed with open areas (European Red List 2015).

Accipiter nisus granti, the Macaronesian subspecies, has a breeding population size of 350-1500 pairs and a breeding range size of 5000 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Uncertain in the short term and Increasing in the long term. Accipiter nisus nisus, the subspecies found elsewhere in Europe, has a breeding population size of 213000-356000 pairs and a breeding range size of 3670000 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Decreasing in the short term and Increasing in the long term.

The EU population status assessment was carried out at the species level, Accipiter nisus. Accipiter nisus has a breeding population size of 213000-358000 pairs in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Decreasing in the short term and Increasing in the long term.

The EU population status of Accipiter nisus was assessed as Secure, because the species does not meet any of the IUCN Red List criteria for threatened or Near Threatened, or the criteria for Depleted or Declining (the EU27 population or range has not declined by 20% or more since 1980).