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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, Emberiza melanocephala. 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 estimatePartial
GR estimatePartial
HR estimateExpert
IT estimateExpert
RO completeSurvey
SI 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
BG estimatePartial
CY estimatePartial
GR estimatePartial
HR completeSurvey
IT estimatePartial
RO completeSurvey
SI 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
BG
CY
GR
HR
IT
RO
SI
Max
Best value Unit Type est. Change % MS ST period ST direction ST magnitude LT period LT direction LT magnitude Status Distrib. % MS
BG
40000
140000
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
21.4
2001-2018 + 0 | 15 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 5 | 10 | (N/A) # 77424 21.1 2000-2018 + 0 | 10 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 10 | 30 | (N/A) 80400 21.1
CY
5900
16000
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
2.6
2007-2018 u -16 | 7 | (N/A) 1980-2018 x N/A 2900 0.8 2007-2018 = 0 | 0 | (N/A) 1980-2018 x N/A 2900 0.8
GR
40000
50000
N/A
p
interval
knowledge
10.7
2007-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-41) 1980-2018 - -30 | -5 | (N/A) 189200 51.5 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A 184100 48.4
HR
N/A
N/A
50000
p
estimate
N/A
11.9
2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A 20439 5.6 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A 36400 9.6
IT
4000
16000
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
2.4
2007-2018 x N/A 1993-2018 + 100 | 300 | (N/A) 17700 4.8 2007-2018 + 5 | 10 | (N/A) 1993-2018 + 60 | 65 | (N/A) 17700 4.7
RO
140961
288287
N/A
p
interval
method
51.0
2008-2018 u -4 | 6 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 14000 | 30000 | (N/A) 59400 16.2 2007-2018 + 1 | 10 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 2000 | 5000 | (N/A) 58600 15.4
SI
0
1
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
2008-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-100) 0.00000 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-100) # N/A N/A
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 219000 543000 p x x 355000 NE NE Unknown E B Unknown Emberiza melanocephala