#0645 · 🐦 birds

Bank Swallow

🇳🇱 Oeverzwaluw ·Riparia riparia

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The sand martin ( Riparia riparia ) or European sand martin , bank swallow in the Americas, and collared sand martin in the Indian Subcontinent, is a migratory passerine bird in the swallow family. It has a wide range in summer, embracing practically the whole of Europe and the Mediterranean countries, part of northern Asia and also North America. It winters in eastern and southern Africa, South America and the Indian Subcontinent.

base stats

NL sightings 320iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 28,076iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).