Wire-tailed Swallow

Hirundo smithii

Iucn red list assessment 6


Red List Category
LC
Least Concern

Red List Criteria

Version
3.1

Year Assessed
2012

Assessor/s
BirdLife International

Reviewer/s
Butchart, S. & Symes, A.

Contributor/s

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.

History
  • Least Concern (LC)
  • Least Concern (LC)
  • Least Concern (LC)
  • Lower Risk/least concern (LR/lc)
  • Lower Risk/least concern (LR/lc)
  • Lower Risk/least concern (LR/lc)

Sources and Credits

  1. (c) anonymous, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.biopix.com/photos/JOM-Hirundo-smithii-00001.jpg
  2. (c) Martin Grimm, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.flickr.com/photos/mgrimm82/22290184022/
  3. (c) Harold Brown, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://lh3.ggpht.com/-v1c2BZyD5Ns/UtSzCVL5WZI/AAAAAAAABBI/x23PseJjWnk/DSC_0810-Edit-Edit.jpg
  4. (c) Joachim Louis, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Joachim Louis
  5. (c) Nick Schaller, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Nick Schaller
  6. (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/34499435

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