Data Sheet Info

Eurasian Chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs, is a species of passerine bird in the finch family found in cropland, grassland and woodland and forest ecosystems.

Fringilla coelebs ombriosa, the subspeciec enedmic to El Hierro in the Canary Islands archipelago, has a breeding population size of 1000-5000 pairs and a breeding range size of 200 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Unknown in the short term and Unknown in the long term. All other subspecies of Fringilla coelebs have a breeding population size of 81300000-126000000 pairs and a breeding range size of 4010000 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Increasing in the short term and Stable in the long term.

The EU population status assessment was carried out at the species level, Fringilla coelebs. Fringilla coelebs has a breeding population size of 81300000-126000000 pairs in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Increasing in the short term and Stable in the long term.

The EU population status of Fringilla coelebs 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).