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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
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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, Cygnus cygnus. 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
AT
BE
BG
CZ completeSurvey
DE completeSurvey
DK
EE estimateExpert
FI estimatePartial
FR
GR
HU completeSurvey
IE
LT estimatePartial
LV estimatePartial
NL completeSurvey
PL completeSurvey
RO
SE estimatePartial
SI
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
AT
BE
BG
CZ completeSurvey
DE estimateExpert
DK
EE estimatePartial
FI completeSurvey
FR
GR
HU completeSurvey
IE
LT estimatePartial
LV completeSurvey
NL completeSurvey
PL completeSurvey
RO
SE estimatePartial
SI
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
AT completeSurvey
BE completeSurvey
BG estimatePartial
CZ completeSurvey
DE completeSurvey
DK completeSurvey
EE completeSurvey
FI estimatePartial
FR completeSurvey
GR completeSurvey
HU
IE completeSurvey
LT
LV
NL completeSurvey
PL completeSurvey
RO estimatePartial
SE completeSurvey
SI completeSurvey
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
AT
42 214 156 i estimate noChange 2007-2018 = N/A | N/A | (6) 1980-2018 + N/A | N/A | (71) keywintering & I
BE
21 62 36 i interval genuine 2007-2018 u -71 | 141 | (-16) 1992-2018 u -55 | 72 | (-12) keywintering & I
BG
500 1500 N/A i estimate genuine 0.6 2000-2018 + 30 | 50 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 10 | 20 | (N/A) # keywintering & I
CZ
0
1
N/A
p
estimate
N/A
#
2002-2016 + N/A | N/A | (100) 1986-2016 + N/A | N/A | (100) # 100 2002-2016 + N/A | N/A | (100) 1986-2016 + N/A | N/A | (100) # 1 3 N/A i estimate noChange 2004-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A # keywintering & I 300
DE
50
60
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
0.3
2004-2016 + 101 | 198 | (145) 1982-2016 + 1362 | 3409 | (2171) 2996 0.4 2004-2016 + 11 | 40 | (N/A) 1980-2016 + 181 | 1000 | (N/A) N/A N/A 40000 i mean genuine 23.2 2003-2016 + 6 | 22 | (14) 1980-2016 + 172 | 212 | (191) keywintering & I 3000 0.4
DK
N/A N/A 57578 i estimate genuine # 33.5 2006-2017 + N/A | N/A | (160) 1984-2017 + N/A | N/A | (1300) # keywintering & I
EE
250
300
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
1.3
2006-2017 + 12 | 93 | (N/A) 1980-2017 + 133 | 180 | (N/A) 13400 1.7 2007-2018 + 37 | 4300 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 99 | 13300 | (N/A) 1000 3000 N/A i estimate knowledge 1.2 2006-2017 = -10 | 0 | (N/A) 1980-2017 - -30 | 0 | (N/A) keywintering & I 13400 1.7
FI
8567
12274
10808
p
estimate
genuine
52.3
2006-2017 + N/A | N/A | (95) 1980-2017 + N/A | N/A | (721) 260700 32.3 N/A N/A N/A 1980-2010 + 227 | 227 | (N/A) N/A N/A 4100 i estimate genuine 2.4 2007-2018 + 29 | 85 | (54) 1980-2018 + 415 | 721 | (551) keywintering & I 260400 32.3
FR
100 210 155 i mean noChange # 2007-2017 + 127 | 469 | (263) 1980-2017 + 889 | 3526 | (1804) # keywintering & I
GR
20 2068 N/A i estimate knowledge 0.6 2007-2018 + N/A | N/A | (841) 1980-2018 x N/A keywintering & I
HU
1
1
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
2007-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 + 100 | 100 | (N/A) # 50 2007-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 + 100 | 100 | (N/A) 100
IE
N/A N/A 11852 i estimate genuine # 6.9 2005-2015 + N/A | N/A | (21.6) 1986-2015 + N/A | N/A | (49.2) keywintering & I
LT
250
400
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
1.6
2013-2018 + 108 | 208 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 2300 | 2500 | (N/A) 16800 2.1 2006-2018 + 60 | 70 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 25000 | 40000 | (N/A) 16700 2.1
LV
430
600
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
2.5
2012-2018 + 83.64 | 88.59 | (85.56) 1980-2017 + 3128 | 3872 | (N/A) 26200 3.2 2000-2017 + N/A | N/A | (60) 1980-2017 + N/A | N/A | (1771) 26000 3.2
NL
2
2
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
2006-2017 + 100 | 100 | (100) 1980-2017 + 100 | 100 | (100) # 300 2005-2015 + N/A | N/A | (200) 1980-2015 + N/A | N/A | (200) # 2165 4930 3778 i mean genuine 2.2 2006-2017 u -1 | 121 | (48) 1981-2017 + 127 | 423 | (244) keywintering & I 300
PL
120
200
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
0.8
2007-2018 + N/A | N/A | (254) 1980-2018 + 3500 | 6000 | (N/A) 17000 2.1 2007-2018 + N/A | N/A | (207) 1980-2018 x N/A 10000 15000 N/A i estimate genuine 7.3 2011-2018 + 39 | 122 | (76) 1980-2018 x N/A # keywintering & I 17000 2.1
RO
1021 3653 N/A i mean knowledge 1.4 2013-2018 u -6.73 | 3.23 | (N/A) 2000-2018 u -0.03000 | 5.62 | (N/A) keywintering & I
SE
7200
9800
8500
p
estimate
genuine
41.1
2007-2018 + 33 | 82 | (56) 1980-2018 + 1500 | 2000 | (1750) 465900 57.7 2007-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 + 10 | 30 | (20) 12000 20000 16000 i mean genuine 9.3 2007-2018 + 40 | 104 | (69) 1980-2018 + 90 | 129 | (112) keywintering & I 463900 57.6
SI
0 2 N/A i estimate genuine 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 = 0 | 0 | (N/A) keywintering & I
UK
N/A
N/A
26
p
mean
genuine
#
0.1
2001-2016 + N/A | N/A | (355) 1978-2016 + N/A | N/A | (560) 4100 0.5 1989-2009 + 5.13 | 5.13 | (N/A) 1970-2009 + 412.5 | 412.5 | (N/A) N/A N/A 19590 i estimate genuine # 11.4 2005-2016 + N/A | N/A | (38.9) 1980-2016 + N/A | N/A | (488.2) # keywintering & I 4100 0.5
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 16800 23700 p + + 807000 NE NE 158000 181000 i + + Secure Secure A B Secure Cygnus cygnus