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 Redstart
 Phoenicurus phoenicurus

Key facts

Conservation listings: Europe: SPEC category 2 (depleted) (BiE04)
UK: amber (European status) (BoCC3)
Long-term trend: UK, England: probable shallow decline
Population size: 100,000 (70,000-130,000) pairs in 2009 (APEP13: distance sampling estimate for 2006 (Newson et al. 2008) updated using BBS trend)

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Status summary

The decline in the late 1960s and early 1970s was thought to be due to severe drought conditions in the Sahel wintering area in Africa (Marchant et al. 1990). There was a loss of range of 20% in Britain between 1968-72 and 1988-91, in terms of the numbers of occupied 10-km squares (Gibbons et al. 1993). A recovery in population size began in the mid 1970s and appears to have continued, at least in England, into the late 1990s. This increase has been associated with steeply improving numbers of fledglings per breeding attempt and progressively earlier laying dates. The trend towards earlier laying can be partly explained by recent climate change (Crick & Sparks 1999). There has been widespread moderate increase across Europe since 1980 (PECBMS 2012a).


CBC/BBS UK graph


Population changes in detail


Demographic trends

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