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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.

Warning: The map does not show the distribution for sensitive species in GR

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Unknown
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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.

Sensitive spatial information for this species is not shown in the map. Current selection: 2013-2018, Ciconia ciconia, Ciconia ciconia (W Europe & North-west Africa/Sub-Saharan Africa). 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
DE completeSurvey
ES estimatePartial
FR estimatePartial
IT estimateExpert
LU completeSurvey
NL completeSurvey
PT completeSurvey
Max
Best value Unit Type est. Change ℹ % MS ST period ST direction ST magnitude LT period LT direction LT magnitude ℹ
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
DE estimateExpert
ES completeSurvey
FR estimatePartial
IT estimatePartial
LU completeSurvey
NL completeSurvey
PT estimatePartial
Area
ℹ % MS ST period ST direction ST magnitude LT period LT direction LT magnitude ℹ 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
DE
ES
FR
IT
LU
NL
PT
Max
Best value Unit Type est. Change ℹ % MS ST period ST direction ST magnitude LT period LT direction LT magnitude ℹ Status Distrib. % MS
BE
14
48
31
p
estimate
genuine
 #
2008-2018 + 250 | 1100 | (675) 1973-2018 + 2700 | 9500 | (6100) # 1089 # 0.3 2008-2018 + N/A | N/A | (55.57) 1973-2018 + N/A | N/A | (900) 16700 4.3 Ciconia ciconia (W Europe & North-west Africa/Sub-Saharan Africa)
DE
3000
3500
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
6.0
2004-2016 + 199 | 358 | (271) 1980-2016 + 46 | 226 | (119) 87985 24.2 2004-2016 + 11 | 40 | (N/A) 1980-2016 + 41 | 180 | (N/A) 90100 23.3 Ciconia ciconia (W Europe & North-west Africa/Sub-Saharan Africa)
ES
N/A
N/A
33217
p
estimate
noChange
61.5
2007-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 + N/A | N/A | (99.6) 127981 35.1 2007-2018 + N/A | N/A | (41.4) 1980-2018 + N/A | 583.3 | (N/A) 135800 35.1 Ciconia ciconia (W Europe & North-west Africa/Sub-Saharan Africa)
FR
N/A
N/A
3900
p
estimate
genuine
7.2
2007-2018 + N/A | N/A | (180) 1980-2018 + N/A | N/A | (11000) 54500 15.0 2009-2018 + N/A | N/A | (43) 1985-2018 + 250 | 300 | (N/A) 54000 13.9 Ciconia ciconia (W Europe & North-west Africa/Sub-Saharan Africa)
IT
320
330
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
0.6
2007-2018 + 65 | 115 | (N/A) 1993-2018 + 3200 | 31900 | (N/A) 17200 4.7 2007-2018 + 40 | 45 | (N/A) 1993-2018 + N/A | N/A | (1750) 17200 4.4 Ciconia ciconia (W Europe & North-west Africa/Sub-Saharan Africa)
LU
1
2
N/A
p
mean
genuine
 #
2007-2018 + 100 | 200 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 100 | 200 | (N/A) 2 # 2007-2018 + 100 | 200 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 100 | 200 | (N/A) N/A N/A Ciconia ciconia (W Europe & North-west Africa/Sub-Saharan Africa)
NL
825
1075
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
1.8
2006-2017 + 109 | 179 | (141) 1980-2017 + 7000 | 9949 | (8351) 18400 5.0 2000-2015 + N/A | N/A | (138.96) 1977-2015 + N/A | N/A | (1050) 18100 4.7 Ciconia ciconia (W Europe & North-west Africa/Sub-Saharan Africa)
PT
12400
12600
12307
p
estimate
genuine
22.8
2004-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 + N/A # 56900 # 15.6 2005-2018 = N/A | N/A | (-3) 1980-2018 + N/A # 55200 14.3 Ciconia ciconia (W Europe & North-west Africa/Sub-Saharan Africa)
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