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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
=
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, Otus scops. 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 completeSurvey
BG estimatePartial
CY estimateExpert
CZ estimateExpert
ES estimatePartial
FR estimatePartial
GR estimatePartial
HR estimateExpert
HU estimatePartial
IT estimateExpert
PL completeSurvey
PT estimatePartial
RO completeSurvey
SI completeSurvey
SK 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
BG estimatePartial
CY estimateExpert
CZ completeSurvey
ES completeSurvey
FR estimatePartial
GR estimatePartial
HR estimateExpert
HU completeSurvey
IT estimatePartial
PL absentData
PT estimatePartial
RO completeSurvey
SI estimateExpert
SK estimateExpert
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
BG
CY
CZ
ES
FR
GR
HR
HU
IT
PL
PT
RO
SI
SK
Max
Best value Unit Type est. Change % MS ST period ST direction ST magnitude LT period LT direction LT magnitude Status Distrib. % MS
AT
70
100
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
2007-2018 + 50 | 70 | (N/A) 1981-2018 + 200 | 300 | (N/A) 4100 0.4 2007-2018 = N/A | N/A | (10) 1981-2018 + 300 | 500 | (N/A) 4100 0.4
BG
7000
14000
N/A
p
estimate
knowledge
6.8
2000-2018 = 0 | 10 | (N/A) 1980-2018 = 0 | 10 | (N/A) 60058 6.5 2000-2018 = 0 | 10 | (N/A) 1980-2018 = 0 | 10 | (N/A) 62600 6.6
CY
3000
5000
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
2.6
2007-2018 - -59 | -40 | (N/A) 1980-2018 x N/A 6300 0.7 2007-2018 = 0 | 0 | (N/A) 1980-2018 x N/A 6300 0.7
CZ
0
4
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
#
2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 + N/A | N/A | (200) # 700 2002-2016 x N/A 1986-2016 x N/A # 700
ES
30000
40000
N/A
p
minimum
noChange
22.5
2007-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-18) 1980-2018 - N/A 79192 8.5 2007-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-9.9) 1980-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-1.1) 84000 8.8
FR
8500
14700
N/A
p
estimate
method
7.5
2013-2018 x N/A 1989-2018 x N/A # 78100 8.4 2013-2018 = 0 | 0 | (N/A) 1989-2018 - -10 | 0 | (N/A) # 77900 8.2
GR
5000
20000
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
8.1
2007-2018 = N/A | N/A | (0) 1980-2018 = N/A | N/A | (0) 177200 19.1 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A 170800 18.0
HR
20000
25000
N/A
p
estimate
N/A
14.5
2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A 56548 6.1 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A 80300 8.4
HU
800
2400
N/A
p
estimate
method
#
1.0
2007-2018 + 5 | 20 | (N/A) 1980-2018 + 10 | 30 | (N/A) 20285 # 2.2 2007-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 x N/A # 20600 2.2
IT
5000
11000
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
5.2
2007-2018 x N/A 1993-2018 + 25 | 40 | (N/A) 239700 25.9 2007-2018 + 10 | 15 | (N/A) 1993-2018 + 55 | 60 | (N/A) 239200 25.2
PL
0
1
N/A
p
estimate
genuine
2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A N/A N/A 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A N/A N/A
PT
1000
5000
N/A
p
estimate
method
#
1.9
2009-2017 - N/A 1980-2018 x N/A # 11000 # 1.2 2005-2018 - N/A | N/A | (-65) 1980-2018 = N/A # 11000 1.2
RO
41306
50265
N/A
p
interval
N/A
29.5
2014-2018 u -11 | -1 | (N/A) 1980-2018 x N/A 180700 19.5 2007-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 x N/A 179700 18.9
SI
500
800
N/A
p
mean
genuine
#
0.4
2007-2018 - -60 | -50 | (N/A) 1997-2018 - -50 | -30 | (N/A) 7700 # 0.8 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 + N/A | N/A | (209) # 6500 0.7
SK
40
80
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
2007-2018 F N/A 1980-2018 F N/A 5498 0.6 2007-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 = N/A 6100 0.6
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 80900 139000 p x x 746000 NE NE Unknown E B Unknown Otus scops