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TREE PIPIT
Anthus trivialis

Tree Pipit © Peter Beaven
 

• Population
  changes

• Productivity
  trends

• Additional
  information
Conservation listings
Europe: no SPEC category (favourable conservation status in Europe, not concentrated in Europe)
UK: amber (>50% population decline but data possibly unrepresentative)
Long-term trend
England: rapid decline
UK population size
74,400 territories in 2000 (1988–91 Atlas estimate updated using CBC/BBS trend: BiE04, APEP06)
Status summary
The species has recently been moved from the green to the amber list, on the strength of its population decline. Tree Pipits occur in greatest abundance in Wales, northern England and Scotland, and thus the marked CBC decline between the two atlas periods may reflect the range contraction that occurred then in central and southeast England (Gibbons et al. 1993). Subsequently, CBC/BBS data for England have shown further decrease, levelling off in the late 1990s. Since 1994, the UK index has increased somewhat: shallow decrease in England has been more than offset by increases in Scotland, although no separate trend is available from there. The causes of the population decline are unclear, but may be linked to changing forest structure, as new plantations mature, and reduced management of lowland woods (Fuller et al. 2005). Improvements have occurred in breeding performance, with an increase in brood size and a substantial decline in failure rates over the 17-day egg stage (13 days incubation and 4 days laying).
 

Population changes
CBC/BBS England graph
 
BBS acknowledgement
 
BBS UK graph
BBS England graph
BBS Wales graph
 

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

 

 

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)

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