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What are the important sites for the different bird species? Search for numbers and trends of breeding birds, migrants and winter visitors for Natura 2000 sites and other important bird areas in the Netherlands.

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Indices and numbers

Did species increase or decline over time? National indices and trends can be downloaded in separate tables per monitoring program. This information can be used freely, provided that the source is mentioned as recommended.

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The Snow Bunting - foto: Harvey van Diek
Uitgelicht

The Snow Bunting

De Sneeuwgors is de meest noordelijke broedvogel ter wereld, tot in Noord-Groenland aan toe. Niet alle Sneeuwgorzen die in Nederland overwinteren komen daar vandaan. Ook een deel van de vogels die op IJsland en in Scandinavië broeden spenderen van ongeveer half oktober tot februari hun tijd in Nederland.

Alles over the Snow Bunting
Conservation status

Conservation status

The Conservation Status is a measure of the resilience of a bird population, based on distribution, population, habitat and furure prospects

Report
Dutch Bird Atlas

Dutch Bird Atlas

A must-have for birders and professionals. The atlas provides information on distribution, breeding behavior and trends.

Website birdatlas
The European Breeding Bird Atlas

The European Breeding Bird Atlas

Published as a partnership between the European Bird Census Council (EBCC) and Lynx Edicions. More than 20 years after the publication of the first European Breeding Bird Atlas, this book is the most up-to-date source of information on distribution, abundance and change of bird populations in Europe.

Website European atlas

Birds in The Netherlands

Thanks to the national bird counts, Sovon has insight into the development of numbers of Dutch bird species, their distribution and developments in areas important to birds, such as Natura 2000 areas.

The information is based on the monitoring networks that Sovon Vogelonderzoek Nederland coordinates in collaboration with Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and other organisations. The basis of the monitoring is formed by the Ecological Monitoring Network (NEM), to which regional and provincial monitoring networks are linked. The monitoring is made financially possible by the central government and the provinces. The information on this website is supplemented by the atlas projects carried out by Sovon, including Vogelatlas and LiveAtlas. The information is updated at least annually and is free to use provided that the recommended source is acknowledged graphs and www.sovon.nl is mentioned. See also the explanation with more details (in Dutch) about the results displayed.

The species and areas pages were created with co-funding from:

Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
Elize Mathilde
Netwerk Ecologische Monitoring