Metadata for: EU birds decline overall in line with global patterns.csv Summary of species level results showing group allocations, total change and proportional change. Supporting manuscript: Abundance decline in the avifauna of the European Union reveals global similarities in biodiversity change species: species scientific name following HBW and BirdLife International 2019 common_name: species common name in English family: species family order: species order migratory.strategy: migratory strategy following Sanderson et al 2006 breeding.biome: species core breeding habitat following Sanderson et al 2006 bird.group: broad type of bird species, categoried by family following Rosenberg et al 2019 abundance.category: Abundance quartile of the species' population estimate ts_source: whether the species time-series was derived from the modelled output output of national monitoring schemes (PECBMS) or from national trend and population estimates (Article 12) firstyear: start year of the species' time-series used in the analysis lastyear: final year of the species' time-series used in the analysis year_est1: average minimum year of the species' national population estimates year_est2: average maximum year of the species' national population estimates popest: average EU population estimate assessed between year_est1 and year_est2 popse: standard error around the EU population estimate Loss_mean: Mean loss of individuals 1980:2017 from Bayesian heirarchical model described in section 2.2.1 of the paper Loss_sd: standard deviation of the mean loss of individuals Loss_lci95: lower 95% credible interval of the loss of individuals Loss_med: Median loss of individuals 1980:2017 Loss_uci95: upper 95% credible interval of the loss of individuals total_proportional_change: Proportional change 1980:2017 annual rate of change: Annual rate of change 1980:2017 HBW and BirdLife International (2019) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 4. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v4_Dec19.zip Rosenberg, K.V., Dokter, A.M., Blancher, P.J., Sauer, J.R., Smith, A.C., Smith, P.A. et al. (2019). Decline of the North American avifauna. Science, 366, 120-124. Sanderson, F.J., Donald, P.F., Pain, D.J., Burfield, I.J. & Van Bommel, F.P. (2006). Long-term population declines in Afro-Palearctic migrant birds. Biol. Conserv., 131, 93-105.