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Aron Tanti

Small martin with wide breeding range encompassing the entire Palearctic except northernmost parts of Eurasia. Also breeds N America. Aerial forager feeding on insects flying at moderate height. Widely distributed in Africa during winter with high variety of migration routes and pre-migration areas in the Carpathian Bend and Balkan (Szép et al. 2017). Numbers have varied greatly due to drought events at their wintering sites on the African continent (Szép 1995). Breeding colonies in riverbanks, quarries and coastal cliffs. European population 3,640,000-8,000,000 breeding pairs, trend unknown.

Season of assessment

B

Population trendDecreasing
Population size
(min-max, best estimate)
13400000-19800000,15900000
Red List categoryLC
Franks, S., Fiedler, W., Arizaga, J., Jiguet, F., Nikolov, B., van der Jeugd, Ambrosini, R, Aizpurua, O., Bairlein, F., Clark, J., Fattorini, N, Hammond, M., Higgins, D, Levering, H., Skellorn, W., Spina, F, Thorup, K. Walker, J., Woodward, I. and Baillie, S.R. (1) (2022) Online Atlas of the movements of European bird populations. https://migrationatlas.org EURING/CMS (1) Principal investigator
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