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The European Red List of Birds is a review of the regional extinction risk of all 544 species of birds occurring regularly and naturally in Europe. The assessment, performed by BirdLife International for the fourth time (1994, 2004, 2015 and 2021), follows the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria applied at regional level, and is funded by the European Commission, Directorate-General for the Environment. Evaluating the extinction risk of each species – i.e., Least Concern, Near Threatened or threatened, and if the latter, to what level – helps to inform decision making, shaping national and international environmental policies and on-the-ground conservation action. The results presented in this report are based on information collated by thousands of experts and volunteers from 54 countries and territories across Europe, extending from Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard in the North to the Canary Islands, Malta and Cyprus in the South, and from the Azores in the West to the Caucasus and Ural Mountains in the East. Data include also the official reports submitted by EU Member States to the European Commission under Article 12 of the Birds Directive in 2019, while similar data were sourced from BirdLife Partners and collaborating experts in other European countries. Additional sources such as scientific reports, national atlases and Red Data Books, as well as peer-reviewed literature were also used to make sure the most recent data available were used. As part of the European Red List update, in 2020 BirdLife International has assessed also the population status of birds in the EU27+UK, based on the Member States reports under Article 12 of the Birds Directive. An overview of the results of the EU population status assessment has been presented in the “State of Nature in the EU” report published by the European Environmental Agency. The table below provides links to factsheets containing detailed information on each species at both European and EU level, including their Red List Category and Criteria (at both regional scales), population size and trend, geographic distribution, habitat and ecology, major threats and conservation measures. More detailed discussion of the results can be found in the European Red List of Birds publication (BirdLife International 2021). |
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| BirdLife International (2021) European Red List of Birds. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. |
Species list (544 species)
Order taxonomically | Order alphabetically by scientific name | Order alphabetically by common name
Order by European Red List category | Order by EU27+UK Red List category
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