BTO - Breeding Birds of the Wider Countryside: Pied Flycatcher

PIED FLYCATCHER
Ficedula hypoleuca

Conservation listings

Europe: no SPEC category (concentrated in Europe, conservation status favourable)
UK: green

Long-term trend

UK: uncertain

Distribution maps

Maps and statistics from British and Irish
atlases can be viewed here.

Status summary

Pied Flycatchers are common birds of upland deciduous woods in parts of western and northern Britain. The proportions of CBC plots occupied by the species rose during the 1980s, but it was never numerous enough for trends to be estimated (Marchant et al. 1990). The 1988-91 breeding atlas revealed a small expansion in range since 1968-72, aided by the provision of nest boxes in new areas (Gibbons et al. 1993). BBS suggests that abundance has decreased steeply since 1994, provisionally raising a BTO Alert.

Table of population changes for Pied Flycatcher

Source	Period (yrs)	Years	Plots (n)	Change (%)	Lower limit	Upper limit	Alert	Comment
BBS UK	9	1994-2003	41	-43	-59	-20	(>25)

Information on productivity not currently available for this species


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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., Beaven, L.P., Coombes, R.H., Downie, I.S., Freeman, S.N., Joys, A.C., Leech, D.I., Raven, M.J., Robinson, R.A. and Thewlis, R.M. (2005) Breeding Birds in the Wider Countryside: their conservation status 2004. BTO Research Report No. 385. BTO, Thetford. (http://www.bto.org/birdtrends) Pages maintained by Susan Waghorn and Iain Downie: Last updated 18 January, 2006