BTO - Breeding Birds of the Wider Countryside: Mistle Thrush

MISTLE THRUSH
Turdus viscivorus

• Population
changes

• Productivity
trends

• Additional
information

Conservation listings

Europe: no SPEC category (concentrated in Europe, conservation status favourable)
UK: amber (25–50% population decline)

Long-term trend

UK, England: moderate decline

UK population size

222,500 territories in 2000 (1988–91 Atlas estimate updated using CBC/BBS trend: BiE04, APEP06)

Status summary

Like those of Song Thrush and Blackbird, Mistle Thrush populations have declined significantly since the mid 1970s, especially on farmland. The species has recently been moved from the green to the amber list because of population decline, but recent BBS data suggest that this decline may now have ceased. The Scottish BBS trend is of strong increase since the late 1990s. There have been no strong trends in breeding performance, and the decline is likely to have been driven by reduced annual survival (Siriwardena et al. 1998).

Population changes

Productivity trends

Insufficient data on CES
available for this species

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., 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. (2006) Breeding Birds in the Wider Countryside: their conservation status 2005. BTO Research Report No. 435. BTO, Thetford. (http://www.bto.org/birdtrends) Pages maintained by Susan Waghorn and Iain Downie: Last updated 28 April, 2006