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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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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.

Current selection: 2013-2018, Limosa limosa, Limosa limosa (all non-breeding populations). 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
ES
FR
IE
NL
PT
UK
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
BG
ES
FR
IE
NL
PT
UK
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
BG estimatePartial
ES estimatePartial
FR completeSurvey
IE completeSurvey
NL completeSurvey
PT completeSurvey
UK completeSurvey
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
BG
0 15 N/A i estimate noChange 2000-2018 - -20 | -20 | (N/A) 1980-2018 - -30 | -20 | (N/A) keywintering Limosa limosa (all non-breeding populations)
ES
30507 65136 46516 i estimate knowledge # 30.7 2007-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 + N/A | N/A | (2.2) keywintering Limosa limosa (all non-breeding populations)
FR
27059 29193 N/A i estimate genuine # 18.6 2007-2017 + 27 | 85 | (54) 1980-2017 + 65 | 82 | (73) # keywintering Limosa limosa (all non-breeding populations)
IE
N/A N/A 17862 i mean genuine # 11.8 2004-2016 + N/A | N/A | (29.8) 1987-2016 + N/A | N/A | (135) keywintering Limosa limosa (all non-breeding populations)
NL
192 449 293 i mean genuine 0.2 2006-2017 u -69 | 2 | (-44) 1981-2017 = -68 | 26 | (-36) # keywintering Limosa limosa (all non-breeding populations)
PT
9963 32298 17759 i mean N/A 11.7 2007-2018 = -6 | 25 | (9) 1988-2018 u N/A # keywintering Limosa limosa (all non-breeding populations)
UK
N/A N/A 40945 i mean genuine # 27.0 2005-2016 + N/A | N/A | (53.8) 1980-2016 + N/A | N/A | (1011.1) keywintering Limosa limosa (all non-breeding populations)
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 37900 46700 p - - 106000 NE NE 126000 186000 i + + Threatened Secure C B Threatened Limosa limosa (all non-breeding populations)