Oriental Pratincole
Glareola maldivarumForster, JR, 1795
English (US) Oriental Pratincole
The Oriental Pratincole (Glareola maldivarum) 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 patchily in grassland near water from western India and Sri Lanka eastward to southeastern Siberia and southward to Philippines; winters grassy fields of islands of northern Indian Ocean and Indian Peninsula eastward through northern Australia and western MicronesiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Glareola maldivarum
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Oriental Pratincole
- Described by
- Forster, JR, 1795
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Glareola (Pratincola) Maldivarum
- Described by
- Forster, JR, 1795
- Type locality
- Open sea in the latitude of the Maldive Islands, ex Latham, Gen. Syn., 5, p. 224, var. B.
- Original description
- Faunula Indica, id est catalogus animalium Indiae Orientalis quae hactenus naturae curiosis innotuerunt. 2nd ed. p.11
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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