Eurasian Jackdaw

(Corvus monedula)

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

Population size: 75 000 – 250 000 pairs

Distribution pattern

With patchy and dispersed distribution throughout the country, denser in the plains and semi-mountainous areas with predominant arable land and larger settlements. It is absent or poorly represented in the mountains and in lowland areas with forests, as well as in a number of other, seemingly suitable for breeding, areas in the Danubian plain, the Thracian Plain, 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 towns, villages and industrial zones, to a less extent in cavities in inland cliffs and exposed rocks, caves and steep seashores, as an exception – in public parks and gardens, where it nests in tree hollows. In the settlements – in chimneys and openings in the roof structures of old buildings. Preferred are also attics of new residential and industrial buildings.

Trends in population changes for the period 2013-2020

Not analysed

Threats

Not analysed