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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, Sturnus unicolor. 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
ES estimatePartial
FR estimatePartial
GIB estimatePartial
IT estimateExpert
PT 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
ES completeSurvey
FR estimatePartial
GIB completeSurvey
IT estimatePartial
PT estimatePartial
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
ES
FR
GIB
IT
PT
Max
Best value Unit Type est. Change % MS ST period ST direction ST magnitude LT period LT direction LT magnitude Status Distrib. % MS
ES
23345000
29585000
N/A
p
interval
noChange
97.1
2007-2018 - -25.8 | N/A | (N/A) 1980-2018 + N/A 337944 69.4 2007-2018 + N/A 1980-2018 + N/A | 329.6 | (N/A) 352300 70.5
FR
5000
15000
N/A
p
estimate
method
2007-2017 x N/A 1989-2017 + N/A | N/A | (14) 5000 1.0 2013-2018 x N/A 1989-2018 + N/A | N/A | (14) # 5000 1.0
GIB
50
100
100
p
estimate
noChange
2001-2018 = 0 | 0 | (0) 1980-2018 = 0 | 0 | (0) 3 2001-2018 = 0 | 0 | (0) 1980-2018 = 0 | 0 | (0) 200
IT
30000
50000
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
0.1
2012-2017 + 25 | 40 | (N/A) 1993-2018 - -50 | -40 | (N/A) 58500 12.0 2007-2018 = N/A 1993-2018 + 55 | 60 | (N/A) 58500 11.7
PT
500000
1000000
N/A
p
estimate
noChange
#
2.8
2004-2018 = N/A 1980-2018 x N/A # 85700 # 17.6 2005-2018 = N/A | N/A | (-6) 1980-2018 = N/A # 83600 16.7
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 23800000 30700000 p - + 487000 NE NE Secure A B Secure Sturnus unicolor