Atlas of nesting birds in Bulgaria

Rock Sparrow

(Petronia petronia)

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

Population size: 150 – 300 pairs

Distribution pattern

With limited dispersed distribution. Breeds regularly in the southern parts of the Struma Valley and the neighbouring areas, north to the Kresna Gorge. Occurs also around the Studen Kladenets Dam in the Eastern Rhodopes, where it probably breeds in certain years and in smaller numbers. In the breeding grounds has dispersed distribution. The pairs often change the breeding sites, leaving some of them unoccupied in some years. 

Big size map

Breeding distribution 2013 – 2020 – The distribution and the estimation of the population size of the species for the period 2013 – 2020 is presented –

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 on exposed, dry hilly sites with single rocks or with group of rocks, cut through by deep ravines with earthen walls, stony gullies, slopes with bushes and low grass.

Trends in population changes for the period 2013-2020

Not analysed

Threats

Not analysed