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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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Stable
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Unknown
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Decreasing
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Fluctuating
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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, Charadrius hiaticula. 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
BE completeSurvey
CZ
DE estimateExpert
DK estimatePartial
EE estimatePartial
ES
FI estimateExpert
FR completeSurvey
IE estimatePartial
LT estimateExpert
LV estimatePartial
NL completeSurvey
PL estimatePartial
PT
SE estimatePartial
UK completeSurvey
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
BE completeSurvey
CZ
DE estimateExpert
DK completeSurvey
EE estimatePartial
ES
FI completeSurvey
FR estimatePartial
IE completeSurvey
LT estimatePartial
LV completeSurvey
NL completeSurvey
PL absentData
PT
SE estimatePartial
UK completeSurvey
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
BE
CZ completeSurvey
DE completeSurvey
DK
EE
ES estimatePartial
FI
FR completeSurvey
IE completeSurvey
LT
LV
NL completeSurvey
PL
PT completeSurvey
SE
UK completeSurvey
Max
Best value Unit Type est. Change % MS ST period ST direction ST magnitude LT period LT direction LT magnitude Status Distrib. % MS
BE
1
5
3
p
estimate
genuine
2008-2018 - -88 | -38 | (-63) 1973-2018 + 100 | 900 | (500) 273 # 2008-2018 = N/A 1973-2018 = N/A 5600 1.4
CZ
0 0 N/A i estimate N/A 2008-2019 x N/A 1980-2019 x N/A keywintering
DE
850
950
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
2.6
2004-2016 - N/A | N/A | (-16) 1980-2016 - N/A | N/A | (-45) 12573 3.3 2004-2016 = -10 | 10 | (N/A) 1980-2016 - -65 | -26 | (N/A) N/A N/A 90 i mean genuine 0.1 2003-2016 F -36 | 80 | (9) 1980-2016 F N/A keywintering 20400 5.2
DK
N/A
N/A
1008
p
estimate
genuine
#
2.9
2006-2017 = -93.92 | 57 | (-65.51) 1987-2017 - -87.1 | -48.47 | (-74.01000) # 27500 7.2 1996-2017 = N/A | N/A | (-9.53) 1974-2017 = N/A | N/A | (-9.53) # 27600 7.0
EE
1000
2000
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
4.4
2006-2017 = 1 | 4 | (N/A) 1980-2017 - -18 | -2 | (N/A) 11600 3.0 2007-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-14) 1980-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-21) 11500 2.9
ES
7861 14101 10981 i minimum genuine # 12.8 2007-2018 + 148 | 282.8 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 4.7 | 398.84 | (N/A) # keywintering
FI
6456
9827
8657
p
estimate
genuine
#
25.2
2007-2018 = -20 | 50 | (10) 1980-2018 + 1 | 20 | (10) 51200 13.3 2001-2012 x N/A 1980-2010 - 18 | 18 | (N/A) 51100 12.9
FR
175
220
200
p
estimate
noChange
0.6
2007-2015 = N/A | N/A | (0) 1984-2015 + 5 | 22 | (N/A) 4400 1.1 2009-2018 = N/A | N/A | (0) 1985-2015 = N/A | N/A | (0) 12800 16100 14400 i mean noChange # 16.8 2007-2017 = -29 | 9 | (0) 1980-2017 + 141 | 252 | (191) # keywintering 4400 1.1
IE
N/A
N/A
1045
p
estimate
noChange
#
3.0
2000-2011 = N/A | N/A | (0) 1980-2011 x N/A # 18200 # 4.7 1991-2011 = N/A | N/A | (0) 1972-2011 - N/A | N/A | (-24) # N/A N/A 10545 i mean genuine # 12.3 2004-2016 - N/A | N/A | (-30.1) 1987-2016 + N/A | N/A | (19.8) keywintering 18200 4.6
LT
20
40
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
2013-2018 = N/A | 0 | (N/A) 1980-2018 - -15 | -10 | (N/A) 300 2006-2018 - -5 | 0 | (N/A) 1980-2018 = 0 | 0 | (N/A) 300
LV
22
60
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
0.1
2000-2018 - -56.65 | -47.59 | (-51.37) 1980-2017 - -35 | -24 | (N/A) 2500 0.7 2000-2017 - N/A | N/A | (-26) 1980-2017 = N/A | N/A | (-7) 2500 0.6
NL
300
390
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
1.0
2006-2017 - -43 | -16 | (-30) 1980-2017 - -32 | -24 | (-28) 13100 # 3.4 2000-2015 = N/A | N/A | (4.8) 1977-2015 = N/A | N/A | (4.8) 266 640 446 i mean noChange 0.5 2006-2017 = -18 | 43 | (8) 1981-2017 + 40 | 194 | (103) keywintering 13100 3.3
PL
180
220
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
0.6
2007-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-30) 1980-2018 - -60 | -50 | (N/A) N/A N/A 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A N/A N/A
PT
5324 9652 6751 i mean N/A 7.9 2007-2018 + 41 | 92 | (65) 1988-2018 + N/A # keywintering
SE
11000
19000
15000
p
estimate
noChange
43.6
2007-2018 u -7 | 93 | (34) 1980-2018 + 40 | 80 | (60) 144500 37.6 2007-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 = N/A 143900 36.3
UK
5257
5622
5438
p
estimate
method
#
15.8
2004-2016 + N/A | N/A | (19.89) 1973-2007 = N/A | N/A | (-5) # 98400 25.6 1989-2009 - -7.43 | -7.43 | (N/A) 1970-2009 = 3.14 | 3.14 | (N/A) N/A N/A 42669 i mean genuine # 49.7 2005-2016 - N/A | N/A | (-30.1) 1980-2016 - N/A | N/A | (-29.1) keywintering 97600 24.6
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 27300 40400 p = = 384000 NE NE 79500 93800 i - = Secure Secure A B Secure Charadrius hiaticula