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Taxonomic note
Riparia riparia and R. diluta (del Hoyo and Collar 2016) were previously lumped as R. riparia following AERC TAC (2003), AOU (1998 & supplements), Cramp et al. (1977-1994), Dowsett & Forbes-Watson (1993), SACC (2005 & updates), Sibley & Monroe (1990, 1993) and Stotz et al. (1996).

Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2016	Least Concern

Migratory status	full migrant	Forest dependency	Does not normally occur in forest
Land mass type		Average mass	-

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence breeding/resident (km2)	101,000,000	medium
Extent of Occurrence non-breeding (km2)	130,000,000	medium
Number of locations		-
Fragmentation		-

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
No. of mature individuals	10000000-500000000	medium	suspected	2015
Population trend	Decreasing		estimated	-
Decline (3 years/1 generation past)		-	-	-
Decline (5 years/1 generation past)		-	-	-
Decline (10 years/1 generation past)		-	-	-
Decline (10 years/3 generation future)		-	-	-
Decline (10 years/3 generation past and future)		-	-	-
Number of subpopulations		-	-	-
Largest subpopulations		-	-	-

Population justification: The European population is estimated at 3,640,000-8,000,000 pairs, which equates to 7,280,000-16,000,000 mature individuals (BirdLife International 2015). Therefore it is likely that the global population falls in the band 10,000,000-500,000,000 mature individuals. National population estimates include: c.10,000-100,000 breeding pairs and c.1,000-10,000 individuals on migration in China; c.100-10,000 breeding pairs and < c.50 wintering individuals in Japan, and c.10,000-100,000 breeding pairs and c.1,000-10,000 individuals on migration in Russia (Brazil 2009).

Trend justification: This species has undergone a small or statistically insignificant decrease over the last 40 years in North America (data from Breeding Bird Survey and/or Christmas Bird Count: Butcher and Niven 2007). The European population trend is unknown (BirdLife International 2015).

Country/Territory	Occurrence status	Presence	Resident	Breeding	Non-breeding	Passage
Afghanistan	N	Extant		Yes
Albania	N	Extant		Yes
Algeria	N	Extant		Yes
Angola	N	Extant			Yes
Anguilla (to UK)	N	Extant				Yes
Antigua and Barbuda	N	Extant				Yes
Argentina	N	Extant			Yes
Armenia	N	Extant		Yes
Aruba (to Netherlands)	N	Extant				Yes
Austria	N	Extant		Yes
Azerbaijan	N	Extant		Yes
Bahamas	N	Extant				Yes
Bahrain	N	Extant				Yes
Bangladesh	N	Extant				Yes
Barbados	N	Extant				Yes
Belarus	N	Extant		Yes
Belgium	N	Extant		Yes
Belize	N	Extant			Yes
Benin	N	Extant			Yes
Bermuda (to UK)	N	Extant				Yes
Bhutan	N	Extant				Yes
Bolivia	N	Extant			Yes
Bosnia and Herzegovina	N	Extant		Yes
Botswana	N	Extant			Yes
Brazil	N	Extant			Yes
Brunei	V	Extant
Bulgaria	N	Extant		Yes		Yes
Burkina Faso	N	Extant			Yes
Burundi	N	Extant			Yes
Cambodia	N	Extant			Yes
Cameroon	N	Extant			Yes
Canada	N	Extant		Yes		Yes
Cape Verde	N	Extant			Yes
Cayman Islands (to UK)	N	Extant				Yes
Central African Republic	N	Extant			Yes
Chad	N	Extant			Yes
Chile	N	Extant			Yes
China (mainland)	N	Extant		Yes
Colombia	N	Extant			Yes
Comoros	V	Extant
Congo	N	Extant			Yes
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	N	Extant			Yes
Costa Rica	N	Extant			Yes
Côte d'Ivoire	N	Extant			Yes
Croatia	N	Extant		Yes
Cuba	N	Extant				Yes
Cyprus	N	Extant		Yes
Czech Republic	N	Extant		Yes
Denmark	N	Extant		Yes		Yes
Djibouti	N	Extant			Yes
Dominica	N	Extant				Yes
Dominican Republic	N	Extant				Yes
Ecuador	N	Extant			Yes
Egypt	N	Extant		Yes
El Salvador	N	Extant				Yes
Eritrea	N	Extant			Yes
Estonia	N	Extant		Yes
Ethiopia	N	Extant			Yes
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	V	Extant
Faroe Islands (to Denmark)	V	Extant
Finland	N	Extant		Yes		Yes
France	N	Extant		Yes		Yes
French Guiana	N	Extant			Yes
Gabon	N	Extant			Yes
Gambia	N	Extant			Yes
Georgia	N	Extant		Yes
Germany	N	Extant		Yes		Yes
Ghana	N	Extant			Yes
Greece	N	Extant		Yes		Yes
Guadeloupe (to France)	N	Extant				Yes
Guatemala	N	Extant				Yes
Guinea	N	Extant			Yes
Guinea-Bissau	N	Extant			Yes
Guyana	N	Extant			Yes
Haiti	N	Extant				Yes
Honduras	N	Extant				Yes
Hong Kong (China)	N	Extant		Yes
Hungary	N	Extant		Yes
India	N	Extant		Yes
Indonesia	V	Extant
Iran, Islamic Republic of	N	Extant		Yes		Yes
Iraq	N	Extant		Yes		Yes
Ireland	N	Extant		Yes
Israel	N	Extant				Yes
Italy	N	Extant		Yes		Yes
Jamaica	N	Extant				Yes
Japan	N	Extant		Yes
Jordan	N	Extant				Yes
Kazakhstan	N	Extant		Yes
Kenya	N	Extant			Yes
Kuwait	N	Extant				Yes
Kyrgyzstan	N	Extant		Yes
Laos	N	Extant			Yes
Latvia	N	Extant		Yes
Lebanon	N	Extant			Yes	Yes
Lesotho	V	Extant
Liberia	N	Extant			Yes
Libya	N	Extant			Yes
Liechtenstein	N	Extant			Yes
Lithuania	N	Extant		Yes
Luxembourg	N	Extant		Yes
Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of	N	Extant		Yes
Madagascar	N	Extant			Yes
Malawi	N	Extant			Yes
Malaysia	N	Extant			Yes
Maldives	V	Extant
Mali	N	Extant			Yes
Malta	N	Extant		Yes
Martinique (to France)	N	Extant				Yes
Mauritania	N	Extant			Yes
Mexico	N	Extant		Yes
Moldova	N	Extant		Yes
Mongolia	N	Extant		Yes
Montenegro	N	Extant		Yes
Montserrat (to UK)	N	Extant				Yes
Morocco	N	Extant		Yes
Mozambique	N	Extant			Yes
Myanmar	N	Extant			Yes
Namibia	N	Extant			Yes
Nepal	N	Extant		Yes
Netherlands	N	Extant		Yes
Nicaragua	N	Extant				Yes
Niger	N	Extant			Yes
Nigeria	N	Extant			Yes
North Korea	N	Extant		Yes
Norway	N	Extant		Yes
Oman	N	Extant			Yes	Yes
Palestinian Authority Territories	N	Extant				Yes
Panama	N	Extant				Yes
Paraguay	N	Extant			Yes
Peru	N	Extant			Yes
Philippines	N	Extant			Yes
Poland	N	Extant		Yes
Portugal	N	Extant		Yes
Puerto Rico (to USA)	N	Extant				Yes
Qatar	N	Extant				Yes
Romania	N	Extant		Yes
Russia	N	Extant		Yes		Yes
Russia (Asian)	N	Extant		Yes
Russia (Central Asian)	N	Extant		Yes		Yes
Russia (European)	N	Extant		Yes
Rwanda	N	Extant			Yes
Saudi Arabia	N	Extant				Yes
Senegal	N	Extant			Yes
Serbia	N	Extant		Yes
Seychelles	V	Extant
Sierra Leone	N	Extant			Yes
Singapore	N	Extant			Yes
Slovakia	N	Extant		Yes
Slovenia	N	Extant		Yes
Somalia	N	Extant			Yes
South Africa	N	Extant			Yes
South Korea	N	Extant		Yes
South Sudan	N	Extant			Yes
Spain	N	Extant		Yes
Sri Lanka	V	Extant
St Kitts and Nevis	N	Extant				Yes
St Lucia	N	Extant				Yes
St Pierre and Miquelon (to France)	N	Extant		Yes		Yes
St Vincent and the Grenadines	N	Extant				Yes
Sudan	N	Extant			Yes
Suriname	N	Extant			Yes
Swaziland	N	Extant			Yes
Sweden	N	Extant		Yes
Switzerland	N	Extant		Yes
Syria	N	Extant				Yes
Taiwan, China	N	Extant		Yes
Tajikistan	N	Extant		Yes
Tanzania	N	Extant			Yes
Thailand	N	Extant			Yes
Togo	N	Extant			Yes
Trinidad and Tobago	N	Extant				Yes
Tunisia	N	Extant			Yes
Turkey	N	Extant		Yes
Turkmenistan	N	Extant		Yes
Turks and Caicos Islands (to UK)	N	Extant				Yes
Uganda	N	Extant			Yes
Ukraine	N	Extant		Yes		Yes
United Arab Emirates	N	Extant			Yes	Yes
United Kingdom	N	Extant		Yes
Uruguay	N	Extant			Yes
USA	N	Extant		Yes
Uzbekistan	N	Extant		Yes
Venezuela	N	Extant			Yes
Vietnam	N	Extant			Yes
Virgin Islands (to UK)	N	Extant			Yes
Virgin Islands (to USA)	N	Extant			Yes
Western Sahara	N	Extant			Yes
Yemen	N	Extant			Yes	Yes
Zambia	N	Extant			Yes
Zimbabwe	N	Extant			Yes

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Aquatic & Marine	Artificial/Aquatic - Wastewater Treatment Areas	suitable	non-breeding
Artificial/Aquatic & Marine	Artificial/Aquatic - Water Storage Areas (over 8ha)	suitable	non-breeding
Artificial/Terrestrial	Arable Land	suitable	non-breeding
Artificial/Terrestrial	Pastureland	suitable	non-breeding
Grassland	Subtropical/Tropical Dry	suitable	non-breeding
Grassland	Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded	suitable	non-breeding
Grassland	Temperate	suitable	breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands	suitable	breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands	suitable	non-breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)	suitable	breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)	suitable	non-breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)	suitable	non-breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)	suitable	breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls)	suitable	breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls)	suitable	non-breeding
Wetlands (inland)	Seasonal/Intermittent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)	suitable	non-breeding
Altitude		Occasional altitudinal limits

Threat (level 1)	Threat (level 2)	Impact and Stresses
Climate change & severe weather	Droughts	Timing		Scope		Severity		Impact
		Past, Likely to Return		Minority (<50%)		Rapid Declines		Past Impact
		Stresses Ecosystem degradation
Energy production & mining	Mining & quarrying	Timing		Scope		Severity		Impact
		Ongoing		Minority (<50%)		Negligible declines		Low Impact: 4
		Stresses Species disturbance, Reduced reproductive success
Natural system modifications	Dams & water management/use	Timing		Scope		Severity		Impact
		Ongoing		Minority (<50%)		Negligible declines		Low Impact: 4
		Stresses Ecosystem degradation, Reduced reproductive success
Pollution	Agricultural & forestry effluents	Timing		Scope		Severity		Impact
		Ongoing		Minority (<50%)		Unknown		Unknown
		Stresses Species disturbance

Purpose	Primary form used	Life stage used	Source	Scale	Level	Timing
Sport hunting/specimen collecting	-	-			Non-trivial	Recent

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2018) Species factsheet: Riparia riparia. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 19/09/2018. Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2018) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 19/09/2018.