European Greenfinch, Carduelis chloris, is a species of passerine bird in the finch family found in cropland, woodland and forest and urban ecosystems. It is a widespread breeder across most of Europe. This species inhabits a wide variety of habitats in boreal, temperate, steppe and Mediterranean zones, including the edges of lowland forest, deciduous and mixed forests, woods, plantations, copses and groves, orchards, churchyards, hedgerows, parks, edges of cultivation and gardens (European Red List 2015).

Carduelis chloris has a breeding population size of 18000000-26100000 pairs and a breeding range size of 4010000 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Stable in the short term and Stable in the long term.

The EU population status of Carduelis chloris 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).