Madagascar Pratincole
Glareola ocularisVerreaux, JP, 1833
English (US) Madagascar Pratincole
The Madagascar Pratincole (Glareola ocularis) 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 rocky coastal and river islets of northwestern and eastern Madagascar; winters coasts and estuaries of eastern Africa from southern Somalia to northern MozambiqueRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Glareola ocularis
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Madagascar Pratincole
- Described by
- Verreaux, JP, 1833
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Verreaux, JP, 1833
- Type locality
- Madagascar.
- Original description
- South African Quarterly Journal vol.2, no.1, pt.2 p.80
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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