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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
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Unknown
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Decreasing
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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, Melanitta fusca. 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
BE
BG
CZ
DE
DK
EE estimatePartial
FI estimatePartial
FR
GR
IE
IT
LT
LV
NL
PL
RO
SE estimatePartial
SI
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
BE
BG
CZ
DE
DK
EE estimatePartial
FI completeSurvey
FR
GR
IE
IT
LT
LV
NL
PL
RO
SE estimatePartial
SI
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
BE estimatePartial
BG completeSurvey
CZ completeSurvey
DE completeSurvey
DK estimatePartial
EE completeSurvey
FI completeSurvey
FR estimatePartial
GR estimatePartial
IE absentData
IT estimatePartial
LT completeSurvey
LV completeSurvey
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
BE
10 200 50 i estimate noChange 2007-2018 F N/A 1992-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-85) keywintering
BG
3 40 N/A i estimate knowledge 2000-2018 F N/A 1980-2018 F N/A keywintering
CZ
20 43 N/A i estimate N/A 2008-2019 u N/A | N/A | (7) 1980-2019 + N/A | N/A | (6) # keywintering
DE
N/A N/A 67000 i mean genuine 24.2 2003-2016 + 138 | 429 | (257) 1980-2016 x N/A keywintering
DK
10000 24000 N/A i estimate method # 6.1 2008-2016 + N/A | N/A | (400) 1981-2017 u N/A # keywintering
EE
50
100
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
0.4
2006-2017 - -50 | -20 | (N/A) 1980-2017 - -90 | -85 | (N/A) 2400 1.2 2007-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-29) 1980-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-74) 2000 10000 N/A i estimate genuine # 2.2 2006-2017 - -50 | -20 | (N/A) 1980-2017 - -50 | -20 | (N/A) keywintering 2400 1.2
FI
4872
15731
10410
p
mean
noChange
#
59.2
2007-2018 = -33 | 18 | (-11) 1986-2018 = -45 | 19 | (-19) 34200 17.4 N/A N/A N/A 1980-2010 - 15 | 15 | (N/A) 17 1055 536 i minimum noChange 0.2 2007-2018 = -65 | 332 | (104) 1980-2018 + 237 | 1270 | (584) keywintering 34200 17.5
FR
155 710 N/A i minimum method 0.2 2007-2017 u -40 | 29 | (-11) 1980-2017 - -38 | -2 | (-22) keywintering
GR
2 3 N/A i estimate knowledge 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A keywintering
IE
N/A N/A 2 i mean noInfo 2004-2016 x N/A 1987-2016 N/A N/A # keywintering
IT
101 259 N/A i estimate method # 2009-2015 - -60 | -30 | (N/A) 1991-2015 + 35 | 60 | (N/A) keywintering
LT
6900 20000 N/A i estimate noInfo 4.9 2013-2018 u N/A 1980-2018 x N/A keywintering
LV
2495 5108 3335 i interval knowledge 1.2 2009-2018 u -87.8 | 3878.1 | (248) 1991-2018 + 380 | 4211.2 | (1370.9) keywintering
NL
200 800 400 i mean genuine 0.1 2004-2015 + 10 | 57 | (32) 1981-2017 - -91 | -89 | (-90) keywintering
PL
107700 243100 159600 i mean noChange 57.6 2011-2018 = -30 | 42 | (0) 1980-2018 x N/A # keywintering
RO
1 66 N/A i mean knowledge 2013-2018 u -8.92 | 9.31 | (N/A) 2000-2018 u -4.45 | 11.5 | (N/A) keywintering
SE
6100
8100
7100
p
estimate
genuine
40.4
2007-2018 - -40 | -20 | (-30) 1980-2018 - -80 | -40 | (-60) 159600 81.3 2007-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 = N/A 1700 8200 5500 i mean genuine 2.0 2007-2018 + 866 | 4212 | (1985) 1980-2018 + 76 | 219 | (196) keywintering 159300 81.3
SI
0 30 N/A i estimate genuine 2007-2018 u N/A | N/A | (-7) 1980-2018 = 0 | 0 | (N/A) keywintering
UK
N/A N/A 3352 i mean genuine 1.2 2005-2016 - N/A | N/A | (-52.2) 1980-2016 + N/A | N/A | (1150) # keywintering
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 11000 24000 p - - 196000 NE NE 201000 384000 i + - Threatened Threatened C B Threatened Melanitta fusca