BirdUp · Species
Oriental Pratincole
Glareola maldivarumForster, JR, 1795
Native
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Glareolidae
- Genus
- Glareola
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The oriental pratincole, also known as the grasshopper-bird or swallow-plover, is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- PAL, OR : patchily in temperate to tropical grassland near water of south to north-east Asia: west India and Sri Lanka, south-east Asia to Malay Pen., east and north-east China, Philippines, Taiwan, east Siberia and south and central Japan
- Non-breeding range
- OR, AU : grassy fields of Chagos Arch. and Maldives (west-central Indian Ocean), Indian Pen. through Indonesian Arch., Cocos (Keeling), Christmas I. and Ashmore Reef (south-east Indian Ocean), north WA and north NT (north and north-central Australia), Mariana Is. to Palau, Truk, Yap and Marshall Is. (west Micronesia)
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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