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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
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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, Pluvialis squatarola. 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
CY
DE
DK
ES
FR
GR
HR
IE
IT
NL
PT
PTAC
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
CY
DE
DK
ES
FR
GR
HR
IE
IT
NL
PT
PTAC
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 completeSurvey
BG estimatePartial
CY estimatePartial
DE completeSurvey
DK completeSurvey
ES completeSurvey
FR completeSurvey
GR estimatePartial
HR estimateExpert
IE completeSurvey
IT estimatePartial
NL completeSurvey
PT completeSurvey
PTAC estimatePartial
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
150 210 170 i interval genuine 0.1 2007-2018 - -65 | -33 | (-52) 1992-2018 - -82 | -73 | (-78) keywintering
BG
10 30 N/A i estimate knowledge 1999-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 - -40 | -20 | (N/A) keywintering
CY
7 165 N/A i estimate genuine # 2007-2018 F N/A 1980-2018 = 0 | 0 | (N/A) keywintering
DE
N/A N/A 19000 i mean method 13.8 2003-2016 - -51 | -25 | (-39) 1980-2016 x N/A keywintering
DK
N/A N/A 310 i estimate noChange # 0.2 2006-2017 F N/A 1980-2017 F N/A # keywintering
ES
7819 9118 8466 i estimate knowledge 6.1 2007-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 + N/A | N/A | (100) keywintering
FR
29768 35318 32543 i mean noChange # 23.6 2007-2017 + 9 | 55 | (30) 1980-2017 + 74 | 122 | (96) # keywintering
GR
538 1397 N/A i estimate knowledge 0.7 2007-2018 + N/A | N/A | (121) 1980-2018 + N/A | N/A | (61) keywintering
HR
50 80 N/A i estimate N/A 2003-2012 = N/A 1980-2018 x N/A keywintering
IE
N/A N/A 2812 i mean genuine # 2.0 2004-2016 - N/A | N/A | (-40.5) 1987-2016 - N/A | N/A | (-24.8) keywintering
IT
4960 8594 N/A i estimate genuine 4.9 2009-2015 + 0 | 35 | (N/A) 1991-2015 + 160 | 360 | (N/A) keywintering
NL
24172 29410 26739 i mean noChange 19.4 2006-2017 = -6 | 36 | (13) 1981-2017 + 68 | 154 | (106) keywintering
PT
2331 9844 6254 i mean N/A 4.5 2007-2018 - -48 | -30 | (-40) 1988-2018 - N/A keywintering
PTAC
N/A N/A 28 i minimum N/A # 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 x N/A keywintering
SI
0 1 N/A i estimate genuine 2007-2018 x N/A 1980-2018 - -90 | 0 | (N/A) keywintering
UK
N/A N/A 33586 i mean genuine 24.4 2005-2016 = N/A | N/A | (-4.8) 1980-2016 + N/A | N/A | (56.3) 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 125000 150000 i = + Secure A W Secure Pluvialis squatarola