Eurasian Tree Sparrow

(Passer montanus)

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

Population size: 500 000 – 800 000 pairs

Distribution pattern

With consistent distribution over almost the entire territory of the country with the exception of the highest parts of the mountains of the Rila-Rhodope Massif, Stara Planina, Vitosha and Sredna Gora.

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 in a wide variety of habitats in natural and anthropogenic landscape. Prefers public parks and gardens, as well as other areas in towns, villages and industrial areas (especially concrete power and light poles, roadside trees, close to water bodies or in yards, small groves in villages, etc.); strips of trees, shrubs and mosaics of them, both in and out of settlements; orchards, tree and shrub plantations; edges of broad-leaved deciduous forests and less often in alluvial and riverine forests and brush; sclerophyllous scrub. Breeds in cavities in cliffs and exposed rocks, as well as in loess and other earthen walls.

Trends in population changes for the period 2013-2020

Not analysed

Threats

Not analysed