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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, Hydrocoloeus minutus. 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
CY
DE completeSurvey
DK completeSurvey
EE completeSurvey
FI estimatePartial
FR
HR
IE
IT
LT estimatePartial
LV estimatePartial
NL completeSurvey
PL completeSurvey
SE estimatePartial
UK
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
CY
DE estimateExpert
DK completeSurvey
EE estimatePartial
FI completeSurvey
FR
HR
IE
IT
LT estimatePartial
LV completeSurvey
NL completeSurvey
PL estimatePartial
SE estimatePartial
UK
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 estimatePartial
CY estimatePartial
DE completeSurvey
DK
EE
FI
FR estimateExpert
HR estimateExpert
IE absentData
IT estimatePartial
LT
LV
NL
PL
SE
UK absentData
Max
Best value Unit Type est. Change % MS ST period ST direction ST magnitude LT period LT direction LT magnitude Status Distrib. % MS
BG
10 250 N/A i estimate knowledge # 1.6 2000-2018 F N/A 1980-2018 F N/A I
CY
5 15 N/A i estimate method # 0.1 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A I
DE
N/A
N/A
3
p
estimate
genuine
2004-2016 x N/A 1980-2016 x N/A 300 0.2 2004-2016 x N/A 1980-2016 x N/A N/A N/A 4600 i mean genuine 58.0 2003-2016 u -9 | 250 | (82) 1980-2016 x N/A I 300 0.2
DK
N/A
N/A
0
p
estimate
noChange
#
2006-2017 u N/A | N/A | (100) 1980-2017 u N/A | N/A | (100) # 100 1996-2017 - N/A | N/A | (-100) 1974-2017 - N/A | N/A | (-100) # 100
EE
600
900
N/A
p
estimate
knowledge
5.4
2006-2017 - -77 | -19 | (N/A) 1980-2017 - -126 | -81 | (N/A) 4200 2.3 2007-2018 = N/A | N/A | (-1) 1980-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-38) 4200 2.3
FI
9000
11000
10000
p
estimate
noChange
#
72.2
2007-2018 = N/A | N/A | (-5) 1986-2017 + N/A | N/A | (31) 104000 57.0 N/A N/A N/A 1980-2010 + 102 | 102 | (N/A) 103900 57.0
FR
1000 5000 N/A i estimate noChange 37.9 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A I
HR
20 80 N/A i estimate N/A 0.6 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2013 x N/A I
IE
N/A N/A 9 i mean noInfo 0.1 2004-2016 x N/A 1987-2016 x N/A I
IT
59 193 N/A i estimate method # 1.6 2009-2015 + 190 | 640 | (N/A) 1991-2015 - -80 | -20 | (N/A) I
LT
20
40
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
0.2
2013-2018 - -60 | -50 | (N/A) 1980-2018 - -90 | -70 | (N/A) 700 0.4 2006-2018 - -40 | -30 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 400 | 500 | (N/A) 700 0.4
LV
150
400
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
2.0
2000-2018 - -40.25 | -35.8 | (-37.97) 1980-2017 - -43 | -39 | (N/A) 1100 0.6 2000-2017 - N/A | N/A | (-48) 1980-2017 - N/A | N/A | (-65) 1100 0.6
NL
0
3
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
#
2008-2017 u -72 | 261 | (11) 1980-2017 - -99 | -94 | (-97) 300 # 0.2 2000-2015 - N/A | N/A | (-50) 1977-2015 - N/A | N/A | (-50) 300 0.2
PL
0
0
0
p
estimate
noChange
2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-100) # 0.00000 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A N/A N/A
SE
2000
3600
2800
p
estimate
noChange
20.2
2007-2018 = -30 | 3 | (0) 1980-2018 + 2000 | 3400 | (2700) 71700 39.3 2007-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 + 150 | 300 | (200) 71700 39.3
UK
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A noChange # N/A 2013-2018 x N/A 2013-2018 x N/A # I
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 11700 16000 p = + 182000 NE NE 5700 10200 i x x Secure Unknown A B Secure Hydrocoloeus minutus