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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, Montifringilla nivalis. 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
AT estimatePartial
DE estimateExpert
ES completeSurvey
FR estimatePartial
GR estimatePartial
IT estimateExpert
SI estimatePartial
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
AT completeSurvey
DE estimateExpert
ES completeSurvey
FR estimatePartial
GR estimatePartial
IT estimatePartial
SI absentData
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
AT
DE
ES
FR
GR
IT
SI
Max
Best value Unit Type est. Change % MS ST period ST direction ST magnitude LT period LT direction LT magnitude Status Distrib. % MS
AT
5000
10000
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
33.5
2007-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-24) 1981-2018 x N/A 17000 19.8 2007-2018 = N/A | N/A | (6) 1981-2018 x N/A 16300 20.1
DE
140
270
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
0.9
2004-2016 = N/A | N/A | (0) 1980-2016 = N/A | N/A | (0) 1138 1.3 2004-2016 + 11 | 40 | (N/A) 1980-2016 = -30 | 40 | (N/A) 1600 2.0
ES
4500
6000
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
23.4
2001-2012 = N/A 1980-2012 = N/A 4571 5.3 2007-2018 + N/A | 60 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + N/A | 100 | (N/A) 4500 5.6
FR
2000
4000
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
13.4
2007-2017 x N/A 1989-2017 x N/A 13300 15.5 2013-2018 - -20 | -10 | (N/A) 1989-2018 - -10 | 0 | (N/A) # 12300 15.2
GR
200
300
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
1.1
2007-2018 = N/A | N/A | (0) 1980-2018 x N/A 24200 28.2 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A 21600 26.7
IT
4000
8000
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
26.8
2007-2018 x N/A 1993-2018 + 30 | 35 | (N/A) 24800 28.9 2007-2018 - -20 | -15 | (N/A) 1993-2018 - -15 | -10 | (N/A) 24100 29.8
SI
100
300
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
0.9
2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A 700 # 0.8 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 + N/A | N/A | (63) # 600 0.7
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 15900 28900 p x x 85700 NE NE Unknown E B Unknown Montifringilla nivalis