UK Bird Species Pressures and Threats: EU Directive Report (2008-2012)

Pressures and threats for individual bird species in the UK, ranked by impact and reliability. These data were submitted by the UK to the EU as part of the Tenth UK Report for Article 12 of the EU Birds Directive, covering the period 2008-2012. The dataset uses a standardized EU list of factors and includes rankings for importance, assessment quality, and impact location.

Use Cases

• Ranking conservation threats based on the reported high, medium, and low impact scores
• Assessing data reliability for ecological models based on the 'Quality of impact assessment' field
• Analyzing geographic scope of pressures based on the 'location' field indicating inside/outside the EU
• Identifying species-specific decline factors for targeted conservation planning

Strengths

• Impact scores are categorized (High, Medium, Low) with defined criteria
• Data reliability is scored on a 3-point scale (Good, Moderate, Poor)
• Geographic scope of each impact is specified (e.g., Inside Member State, Outside EU)

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

Joint Nature Conservation Committee

Collection Method

Submitted by the UK to the EU in accordance with Article 12 reporting guidelines

Time Range

2008-2012

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 09:45:28.646177; freshness should be verified

Geography

United Kingdom, with some impacts reported elsewhere in the EU or outside the EU