Range data provided by Infonatura/Natureserve and BirdPhotos.com.
Ridgely, R. S., T. F. Allnutt, T. Brooks, D. K. McNicol, D. W. Mehlman, B. E. Young, and J. R. Zook. 2005. Digital Distribution Maps of the Birds of the Western Hemisphere, version 2.1. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia, USA. Additional updates and changes by BirdPhotos.com 2016.
Additional Information
English Sand Martin
Scientific (Riparia riparia)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Hirundinidae
Family (English) Swallows, Martins
Other name(s) Bank Swallow, Collared Sand Martin
Regions Worldwide
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA) map Sweden,Nepal,Anguilla,Somalia,Guinea,Guyana,Mozambique,Czech Republic,Ethiopia,Equatorial Guinea,South Africa,Peru,Indonesia,Argentina,Portugal,Nigeria,Netherlands Antilles,Japan,Latvia,Turkey,Tunisia,Morocco,Malawi,Maldives,Bangladesh,Brazil,Paraguay,Ecuador - mainland,Mali,Croatia,Swaziland,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Israel,Madagascar,India - mainland,Belize,Botswana,Namibia,Malta,Algeria,Taiwan,Serbia,Laos,Azerbaijan,Bulgaria,Lebanon,Iraq,Thailand,Singapore,Belarus,Netherlands,Vietnam,Niger,Ukraine,Romania,Cameroon,Greece,Germany,San Marino,Belgium,Burkina Faso,Monaco,Palestine,French Guiana,Uzbekistan,Haiti,Costa Rica,France,United Arab Emirates,Malaysia,Cambodia,Libya,Panama,Rwanda,North Korea,Uruguay,Syria,Benin,Puerto Rico,Mongolia,Hungary,Zambia,Trinidad and Tobago,Liechtenstein,Pakistan,Hong Kong,Suriname,China,Sierra Leone,Gibraltar,Western Sahara,Estonia,Eritrea,Angola,Ivory Coast,Guatemala,Armenia,Saudi Arabia,Oman,Turkmenistan,Honduras,Ireland,Qatar,Nicaragua,Philippines,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Ghana,Mexico,French Polynesia,Djibouti,El Salvador,Slovakia,Tajikistan,South Korea,Poland,Togo,Moldova,Spain,Gabon,Kenya,Bolivia,Egypt,Macedonia,Switzerland,Lithuania,Norway,Canada,Cyprus,Luxembourg,Dominican Republic,Papua New Guinea,Bermuda,Iran,Mauritania,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Finland,Tanzania,Chad,Austria,Kazakhstan,Jordan,Lesotho,Uganda,Italy,Zimbabwe,Bhutan,Yemen,Colombia,Gambia,Liberia,Myanmar,Burundi,Bahrain,Kuwait,Venezuela,Georgia,Sudan,Afghanistan,Denmark,Senegal,Andorra,Albania,United States - Alaska,British Virgin Islands,United States - mainland,Central African Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Comoros,Congo,South Sudan,Montenegro,
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)
Sound File(s) link return with Back
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
Bird Data app text Note chest band. Also called Bank Swallow.
Historical Infonatura static map
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)