Glareola pratincola
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In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%
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 Fertő-Hanság National Park on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 183rd most-seen of the 207 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, and over a week to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Any time of year
In every month with enough records, under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Collared Pratincole in Fertő-Hanság National Park on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.
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.
27th of 29
Of the 29 parks where we can rate Collared Pratincole sightings, Fertő-Hanság National Park ranks 27th at under 5%. The best odds are in Amboseli National Park (Kenya, about 40%), Chobe National Park (Botswana, about 20%) and Mikumi National Park (Tanzania, about 20%). All parks ranked.
Same order: Charadriiformes
The closest relatives of the Collared Pratincole that you can see in Fertő-Hanság National Park (order Charadriiformes, Shorebirds and Allies) are Black-headed Gull (about 60%), Northern Lapwing (about 60%) and Eurasian Curlew (about 40%), 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 Fertő-Hanság National Park (13 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
