Blue Tit

(Parus caeruleus)

Category of conservation concern (IUCN, 2020) – Least Concern

Population size: 350 000 – 650 000 pairs

Distribution pattern

With broad distribution, denser in the mountainous and semi-mountainous areas, more dispersed in the plains, where it is not found in large treeless areas (especially in the Danubian plain, the Thracian Plain, the Burgas lowland, etc.). It is not found in some areas with dense coniferous forests in the Western Rhodopes, Rila, Pirin, etc.

Comparative distribution of the species compared to the first breeding birds atlas (Iankov, 2007): Breeding locality until 2007 | Breeding locality until 2007, confirmed after 2015 – | New breeding locality after 2015. – The breeding localities after 2015 are identified on a base of raw data from smartbirds.org.

Habitats

Breeds mainly in open deciduous forests both in the plains and in the mountains, although it often breeds in strips of trees, shrubs and mosaics of them, especially along rivers, in orchards, tree and shrub plantations, including in riparian Populus sp. plantations, in public parks and gardens. Less common in alluvial and riverine forests and brush, mixed forests and as an exception in coniferous forests.

Trends in population changes for the period 2013-2020

Not analysed

Threats

Not analysed