Glareola pratincola
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The collared pratincole (Glareola pratincola), also known as the common pratincole or red-winged pratincole, is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae. As with other pratincoles, it is native to the Old World. The collared pratincole was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1766 in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae. He placed it with the swallows and swifts in the genus Hirundo and coined the binomial name Hirundo pratincola. The collared pratincole is now placed in the genus Glareola that was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. The genus name is a diminutive of Latin glarea, "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat for pratincoles. The species name pratincola means an inhabitant of meadows, from Latin pratum, prati, "meadow" and incola, "inhabitant", from incolere, "to inhabit".
Two subspecies are recognised: Glareola pratincola pratincola, (Linnaeus, 1766) – southern Europe & North Africa to south Pakistan Glareola pratincola fuelleborni, Neumann, 1910 – sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to central Ethiopia and south Somalia south to east South Africa (includes erlangeri and riparia... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ouagadougou | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso | |
| 2 | Accra | 🇬🇭 Ghana | |
| 3 | Maputo | 🇲🇿 Mozambique | |
| 4 | Kuwait City | 🇰🇼 Kuwait | |
| 5 | Istanbul | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoo Pilsen | 🇨🇿 Czechia |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Collared Pratincole sighting in Maputo on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 109th most-seen of the 115 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September and October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Collared Pratincole in Maputo on a given day, against under 5% in November to August, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Collared Pratincole sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 5
Of the 5 cities where we can rate Collared Pratincole sightings, Maputo ranks 3rd at under 5%. The best odds are in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso, about 20%) and Accra (Ghana, about 10%).
Same order: Charadriiformes
The closest relatives of the Collared Pratincole that you can see in Maputo (order Charadriiformes, Shorebirds and Allies) are Grey-hooded Gull (about 40%), Whimbrel (about 30%) and Ruddy Turnstone (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Collared Pratincole is recorded against all the birds logged in Maputo (5 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
