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GrasslandScrapeMedium · 97 g
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It is 24–28 cm (9.4–11.0 in) long, with short legs, long pointed wings and a forked tail. It has a short bill, which is an adaptation to aerial feeding. The back and head are brown, and the wings are brown with black flight feathers. The belly is white and the underwings are black. Very good views are needed to distinguish this species from other pratincoles, such as the collared pratincole and the oriental pratincole which may occur in its range. It is marginally larger than the collared pratincole, and is shorter-tailed and longer legged.
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When to see the Black-winged Pratincole
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Black-winged Pratincole
The map shades 45 countries with regular records, and 11 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in France, Belgium, Sweden, Netherlands, Finland, Spain, Gabon, Tanzania, Estonia, Rwanda, Palestinian Territories.
About the Black-winged Pratincole
The black-winged pratincole is a wader in the pratincole bird family, Glareolidae. The genus name is a diminutive of Latin glarea, "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat for pratincoles. The species name commemorates the Finnish-born zoologist and explorer Alexander von Nordmann.
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Easily confused with
Rock PratincoleGlareola nuchalisThe rock pratincole (Glareola nuchalis) is a native African wading bird.
Madagascar PratincoleGlareola ocularisThe Madagascar pratincole is a species of bird in the family Glareolidae.
Australian PratincoleGlareola isabellaThe Australian pratincole is a medium-sized slender shorebird with long legs, long pointed wings and a short decurved bill.
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