Australian Pratincole
Glareola isabellaVieillot, LJP, 1816
English (US) Australian Pratincole
The Australian Pratincole (Glareola isabella) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Glareolidae (Coursers and Pratincoles) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds northern Australia (Kimberley region, northern Western Australia, eastward to inland eastern Australia and southward to northern Victoria); winters south-eastern Indonesia to southern New GuineaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Glareola isabella
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Australian Pratincole
- Described by
- Vieillot, LJP, 1816
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Vieillot, LJP, 1816
- Type locality
- 'Australasie.'
- Original description
- Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire p.69
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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