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ROBIN
Erithacus rubecula
 Robin © G H Higginbotham
 

• Population
  changes

• Productivity
  trends

• Additional
  information
Conservation listings
Europe: no SPEC category (concentrated in Europe, conservation status favourable)
UK: green
Long-term trend
UK, England: shallow increase
UK population size
5,895,000 territories in 2000 (1988–91 Atlas estimate updated using CBC/BBS trend: BiE04, APEP06)
Status summary
Robins have increased markedly since the mid 1980s, according to both CBC/BBS and CES results, having been set back earlier by a succession of cold winters. Significant improvements have occurred concurrently in breeding performance, as measured by nest record data, due to reductions in nest failure rates at both egg and chick stages, although CES productivity measures have declined. The CES and BBS graphs show that marked and significant annual fluctuations occur, perhaps in response to winter weather, although these are not evident in the smoothed trends presented from CBC/BBS data. Laying dates have advanced by almost a week since the 1960s. Numbers have risen widely in Europe since 1980 (PECBM 2006).
 

Population changes
CBC/BBS UK graph
 
BBS acknowledgement
 

CBC/BBS England graph
CES adult abundance graph
CES Juvenile abundance graph
BBS UK graph
BBS England graph
BBS Scotland graph
BBS Wales graph

BBS N Ireland graph
 

Productivity trends
 
Clutch size graph
Brood size graph
Egg nest failure graph
Chick nest failure graph
Laying date graph
CES productivity graph
 

Additional information
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This report should be cited as:
Baillie, S.R., Marchant, J.H., Crick, H.Q.P., Noble, D.G., Balmer, D.E., Barimore, C., Coombes, R.H.,
Downie, I.S., Freeman, S.N., Joys, A.C., Leech, D.I., Raven, M.J., Robinson, R.A. & Thewlis, R.M. (2007)
Breeding Birds in the Wider Countryside: their conservation status 2007.
BTO Research Report No. 487. BTO, Thetford. (http://www.bto.org/birdtrends)

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