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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, IT

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Increasing
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Stable
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Unknown
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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.

Sensitive spatial information for this species is not shown in the map. Current selection: 2013-2018, Hydrobates pelagicus. 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
ES estimateExpert
ESIC estimateExpert
FR completeSurvey
GR completeSurvey
IE completeSurvey
IT estimateExpert
MT completeSurvey
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
ES estimateExpert
ESIC absentData
FR completeSurvey
GR estimatePartial
IE completeSurvey
IT estimatePartial
MT completeSurvey
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
ES
ESIC
FR
GR
IE
IT
MT
UK
Max
Best value Unit Type est. Change % MS ST period ST direction ST magnitude LT period LT direction LT magnitude Status Distrib. % MS
ES
3842
5944
N/A
p
minimum
noInfo
#
3.4
2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A # 4100 # 15.9 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A # 4100 25.9
ESIC
N/A
N/A
1000
p
minimum
noInfo
#
0.7
2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A # 700 # 2.7 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A # 1600 10.1
FR
1175
1255
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
#
0.8
2005-2017 + 34 | 41 | (N/A) 1980-2017 x N/A 1300 5.0 2006-2014 = -7 | -7 | (N/A) 1980-2017 = -7 | 0 | (N/A) 1300 8.2
GR
160
235
N/A
p
estimate
knowledge
0.1
2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A 14300 55.4 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A 2200 13.9
IE
N/A
N/A
99056
p
estimate
noChange
#
69.4
2002-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A # 1400 # 5.4 2002-2018 = N/A | N/A | (0) 1991-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-22) # 1400 8.9
IT
3700
4500
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
2.9
2007-2018 x N/A 1993-2018 + 125 | 150 | (N/A) 700 2.7 2007-2018 + 15 | 20 | (N/A) 1993-2018 + N/A | N/A | (75) 700 4.4
MT
5091
8140
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
4.6
2008-2018 = N/A | N/A | (1) 1980-2018 = N/A | N/A | (1) # 5 2008-2018 + N/A | N/A | (40) 1980-2018 = N/A 400 2.5
UK
21043
33517
25710
p
interval
noChange
#
18.0
1999-2011 + N/A 1980-2015 x N/A # 3300 12.8 1989-2009 - -44.07000 | -44.07000 | (N/A) 1970-2009 - -25 | -25 | (N/A) 4100 25.9
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 135000 154000 p x x 25800 NE NE Unknown E B Unknown Hydrobates pelagicus