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Photo Properties
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 5D
Aperture Value
f/8
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
-0.33 EV
Exposure Program
Aperture Priority
Flash
No Flash
Focal Length
600 mm
ISO
400
Metering Mode
Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value
1/510 sec
Date/Time
Sun 04 Dec 2011 06:36:48 AM EST
English Sand Martin
Scientific (Riparia riparia riparia)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Hirundinidae
Family (English) Swallows, Martins
Other name(s) Bank Swallow, Collared Sand Martin
Breeding Regions Worldwide
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Andorra,Angola,Anguilla,Argentina,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan, Bahrain,Bangladesh,Belarus,Belgium,Belize,Benin,Bermuda,Bhutan,Bolivia,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana,Brazil,British Virgin Islands,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon,Canada,Central African Republic, Chad,China,Colombia,Comoros,Congo,Costa Rica,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark,Djibouti,Dominican Republic,Ecuador - mainland,Egypt,El Salvador,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia, Finland,France,French Guiana,French Polynesia,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar, Greece,Guatemala,Guinea,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,Hong Kong,Hungary,India - mainland,Indonesia, Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya, Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Lebanon,Lesotho,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania, Luxembourg,Macedonia,Madagascar,Malawi,Malaysia,Maldives,Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Mexico, Moldova,Monaco,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles,Nicaragua,Niger,Nigeria,North Korea,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palestine,Panama, Papua New Guinea,Paraguay,Peru,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Puerto Rico,Qatar,Romania,Russia, Rwanda,San Marino,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia,Somalia, South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan,Spain,Sudan,Suriname,Swaziland,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria, Taiwan,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo,Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda, Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,United States - Alaska,United States - mainland,Uruguay,Uzbekistan,Venezuela,Vietnam,Western Sahara, Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
riparia North America, Europe to c Asia
taczanowskii s Siberia and c Mongolia to e Siberia
ijimae Sakhalin and Kuril Is. (se Russia) and Japan
shelleyi Egypt
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Uferschwalbe
French Hirondelle de rivage
Chinese 崖沙燕
Japanese ショウドウツバメ
Russian Береговушка
Spanish Avión zapador
Portuguese andorinha-das-barreiras-comum
Bird Data App text Note chest band. Also called Bank Swallow.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)