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Population status and trends at the EU and Member State levels

The Article 12 web tool provides an access to EU assessments and Member States’ data compiled as part of the Habitats Directive - Article 12 reporting process. The EU assessments have been carried out in EU 27 for the period 2008-2012 and in EU28 for the period 2013-2018.

Choose period, species and if relevant sub-specific unit.

Once a selection has been made the breeding distribution of the species can be visualized in a map.

The ‘Data sheet info’ includes notes for each assessment per species.

The ‘Audit trail’ includes the methods used for the EU assessment and justifications for decisions made by the assessors.

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Increasing
=
Stable
x
Unknown
-
Decreasing
F
Fluctuating
u
Uncertain

Codes ‘PT’, ‘ES ‘correspond to Portugal mainland (excluding Azores-PTAC and Madeira-PTMA) and Spain mainland (excluding Canary Islands-ESIC) respectively.
Similarly ‘UK’ stands for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (excluding Gibraltar-GIB).
The data from delayed delivery by Romania were not used for the EU population status assessment.

Current selection: 2013-2018, Apus pallidus. Show all
Data from Member States reports
MS Breeding population Breeding distribution Winter population Breeding area from
gridded maps (km2)
Ssp. / subsp. unit
Population size Population trend Distribution size Distribution trend Population size Population trend
Min
Mouse-over texts for entries below show "Method used" reported for population size as a whole:
estimatePartial - based mainly on extrapolation from limited amount of data
estimateExpert - based mainly on expert opinion, with very limited data
absentData - insufficient or no data available
completeSurvey - complete survey or statistically robust estimate
Country Method used
BG estimatePartial
CY estimateExpert
ES completeSurvey
ESIC estimateExpert
FR estimatePartial
GIB estimateExpert
GR estimatePartial
HR estimateExpert
IT estimateExpert
MT completeSurvey
PT estimatePartial
PTMA estimatePartial
RO estimateExpert
Max
Best value Unit Type est. Change % MS ST period ST direction ST magnitude LT period LT direction LT magnitude
Mouse-over texts for entries below show "Method used" reported for distribution surface area (in km²):
estimatePartial - based mainly on extrapolation from limited amount of data
estimateExpert - based mainly on expert opinion, with very limited data
absentData - insufficient or no data available
completeSurvey - complete survey or statistically robust estimate
Country Method used
BG estimateExpert
CY estimatePartial
ES completeSurvey
ESIC absentData
FR completeSurvey
GIB estimateExpert
GR estimatePartial
HR estimateExpert
IT estimatePartial
MT completeSurvey
PT estimatePartial
PTMA estimatePartial
RO estimatePartial
Area
% MS ST period ST direction ST magnitude LT period LT direction LT magnitude Min
Mouse-over texts below show "Method used" reported for population size value(s):
estimatePartial - based mainly on extrapolation from limited amount of data
estimateExpert - based mainly on expert opinion, with very limited data
absentData - insufficient or no data available
completeSurvey - complete survey or statistically robust estimate
Country Method used
BG
CY
ES
ESIC
FR
GIB
GR
HR
IT
MT
PT
PTMA
RO
Max
Best value Unit Type est. Change % MS ST period ST direction ST magnitude LT period LT direction LT magnitude Status Distrib. % MS
BG
2000
5000
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
0.6
2001-2018 + 0 | 10 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 0 | 10 | (N/A) 16062 1.8 2001-2018 + 5 | 10 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 5 | 10 | (N/A) 16800 7.0
CY
200
1000
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
0.1
2007-2018 = 0 | 0 | (N/A) 1980-2018 x N/A 600 2007-2018 = 0 | 0 | (N/A) 1980-2018 - -25 | -10 | (N/A) 600 0.2
ES
N/A
N/A
31159
p
minimum
noChange
5.0
2007-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 = N/A 641592 72.9 2007-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 + N/A | N/A | (123.8) 63100 26.4
ESIC
50
250
N/A
p
minimum
noInfo
#
2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A # 2700 # 0.3 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A # 3300 1.4
FR
3000
5000
N/A
p
estimate
method
0.6
2007-2018 x N/A 1989-2018 x N/A # 5900 0.7 2012-2018 + 5 | 10 | (N/A) 1989-2018 + 5 | 5 | (5) # 5800 2.4
GIB
2000
2000
2000
p
estimate
noChange
0.3
2001-2018 + 2000 | 2000 | (2000) 1980-2018 + 2000 | 2000 | (2000) 2 2007-2018 = 0 | 0 | (0) 1980-2018 + 2000 | 2000 | (2000) 200
GR
10000
20000
N/A
p
estimate
knowledge
2.4
2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A 116100 13.2 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A 64800 27.1
HR
5000
10000
N/A
p
estimate
N/A
1.2
2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A 16500 1.9 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A 4200 1.8
IT
7000
14000
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
1.7
2007-2018 x N/A 1993-2018 + N/A | N/A | (40) 39200 4.5 2007-2018 + 30 | 35 | (N/A) 1993-2018 + 225 | 230 | (N/A) 39200 16.4
MT
15
21
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
#
2009-2018 + N/A | N/A | (20) 1980-2018 = N/A | N/A | (20) # 8 2008-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-12.5) 1980-2018 = N/A 300 0.1
PT
100000
1000000
N/A
p
estimate
N/A
#
87.7
2007-2018 u N/A 1980-2018 x N/A # 39800 # 4.5 2005-2018 + N/A | N/A | (43) 1980-2018 x N/A # 39600 16.6
PTMA
1000
5000
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
#
0.5
2008-2018 x N/A | N/A | (1) 1980-2018 x N/A | N/A | (1) 1400 0.2 2001-2018 = N/A | N/A | (1) 1980-2018 x N/A | N/A | (1) 1100 0.5
RO
20
100
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
2007-2018 + 1000 | 5000 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 1000 | 5000 | (N/A) 300 2007-2018 + 1 | 30 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 1 | 30 | (N/A) 300 0.1
EU population status assessments
Breeding population Breeding distribution Winter population EU population
status
Contribution
to Target 1
Season Previous status Ssp. / subsp. unit
Population size (min) Population size (max) Unit Short-term trend Long-term trend Area Short-term trend Long-term trend Population size (min) Population size (max) Unit Short-term trend Long-term trend Breeding Wintering
EU28 161000 1100000 p x x 879000 NE NE Unknown E B Secure Apus pallidus