Population trends (1989–2005) of 15 species of forest-breeding passerines in northern and western Europe, separated for long-distance migrants (filled circles) and residents and short-distance migrants (open circles). Only species are used for which we had trends in both regions, and each dot is a pair of species’ population trends. The x = y line is dotted and species that fall below this line fare worse in western compared with northern Europe. Population trends are from the PECBM (see the electronic supplementary material for details). For migrants, common species names are given in abbreviations: TP, tree pipit; CR, common redstart; WW, wood warbler; GW, garden warbler; PF, pied flycatcher; SF, spotted flycatcher.