| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | Apodiformes | Apodidae |
| Scientific Name: | Apus affinis | ||||||
| Species Authority: | (Gray, 1830) | ||||||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 | |||||||||||||||
| Year Assessed: | 2009 | |||||||||||||||
| Assessor/s | BirdLife International | |||||||||||||||
| Evaluator/s: | Bird, J., Butchart, S.(BirdLife International) | |||||||||||||||
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Justification: This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be increasing, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern. |
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Native:
Afghanistan; Algeria; Angola; Benin; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Chad; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d'Ivoire; Djibouti; Egypt; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; India; Iran, Islamic Republic of; Israel; Jordan; Kenya; Lebanon; Lesotho; Liberia; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Madagascar; Malawi; Mali; Mauritania; Morocco; Mozambique; Namibia; Niger; Nigeria; Pakistan; Rwanda; Sao Tomé and Principe; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Somalia; South Africa; Spain; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Swaziland; Syrian Arab Republic; Tajikistan; Tanzania, United Republic of; Timor-Leste; Togo; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Uganda; United Arab Emirates; Uzbekistan; Yemen; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Vagrant:
Australia; Bahrain; Bulgaria; Greece; Iraq; Ireland; Italy; Kuwait; Maldives; Malta; Oman; Portugal; Qatar; Seychelles; Sweden; United Kingdom
Present - origin uncertain:
Azerbaijan
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| Population: | The global population size has not been quantified. In Europe, the breeding population is estimated to number 900-2500 breeding pairs, equating to 2700-7500 individuals (BirdLife International 2004), but Europe forms <5% of the global range. |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
| Citation: | BirdLife International 2009. Apus affinis. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 14 March 2010. |
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