Coal Tit

(Periparus ater)

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

Population size: 300 000 – 600 000 pairs

Distribution pattern

With patchy and in some areas dispersed distribution. Densely covering the coniferous belt of the mountains of the Rila-Rhodope Massif and Vitosha, the high parts of Stara Planina (eastward to Kotlenska Mountain). Isolated breeding sites are found in the Eastern Rhodopes, Sredna Gora, Lozenska Mountain, and Eastern Stara Planina and even in the Thracian Plains, the Sofia Field (including in the urban part of Sofia), along the Tundzha River valley, 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 coniferous forests of Picea abies, Pinus peuce, P. heldreihii, P. sylvestris and P. nigra, in mixed forests and in broad – leaved deciduous forests of Fagus sylvatica. Nests also in orchards, tree and bush plantations, in particular – in artificial plantations of coniferous trees.

Trends in population changes for the period 2013-2020

Not analysed

Threats

Not analysed