Glareola pratincola
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
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 Liwonde National Park on a given day, based on 17 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 205th most-seen of the 267 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January, July and September–November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Collared Pratincole in Liwonde National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February–June, August and December, 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.
18th of 29
Of the 29 parks where we can rate Collared Pratincole sightings, Liwonde National Park ranks 18th 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.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Collared Pratincole is recorded against all the birds logged in Liwonde National Park (17 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.
