The sand martin (Riparia riparia), also known as the bank swallow (in the Americas), collared sand martin, or common sand martin, 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 and across the Palearctic to the Pacific Ocean. It is a Holarctic species also found in North America. It winters in eastern and southern Africa, South America, and the Indian Subcontinent.
^BirdLife International (2019) [amended version of 2016 assessment]. "Riparia riparia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T103815961A155536007. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T103815961A155536007.en. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
^For Cotile riparia see for instance Bonhote, J. Lewis (1907). Birds of Britain. illustrated by H. E. Dresser. London: Adam and Charles Black. pp. 113/4. OCLC 1451688.
The sandmartin (Riparia riparia), also known as the bank swallow (in the Americas), collared sandmartin, or common sandmartin, is a migratory passerine...
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type of nest built. The groups are the "core martins" including burrowing species like the sandmartin, the "nest-adopters", which are birds like the...
type of nest built. The groups are the "core martins" including burrowing species like the sandmartin, the "nest-adopters", which are birds like the...
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is a member of the passerine bird family Hirundinidae, the swallows and martins. The generic name Petrochelidon is derived from the Ancient Greek petros...
type of nest built. The groups are the "core martins" including burrowing species like the sandmartin, the "nest-adopters", which are birds like the...
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underparts, and minor plumage details like throat colour. They resemble the sandmartin, but are darker below, and lack a breast band. These are species of craggy...
type of nest built. These groups are the "core martins", including burrowing species like the sandmartin; the "nest-adopters", which are birds like the...
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Retrieved 30 January 2024. Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1882). "On a new species of sand-martin (Cotile) from Madagascar". Journal of the Linnean Society of London....
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