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Oriental Pratincole

(Glareola maldivarum)
Alternate name(s): "Grasshopper-bird", "Swallow-plover"
Size: 23-24 cm; wing span 60-65 cm
Weight: 80-100 g (outside the breeding season)

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Description     Classification     Distribution     Sightings     Photos     Breeding     Nest     Eggs     Behaviour     Food     Call/s

Physical description

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Taxonomy, classification

See Oriental Pratincole at Wikipedia .

Range, habitat, finding this species

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Sightings

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Photos

ADULT

Sex unknown

NON-BREEDING

Lateral view of an Oriental Pratincole in non-breeding plumage looking at the observer (photo courtesy of J. Greaves)
[Pickertaramoor, Melville Island, NT, December 2016]

Lateral view of an Oriental Pratincole in non-breeding plumage (photo courtesy of J. Greaves)
[Pickertaramoor, Melville Island, NT, December 2016]

Lateral view of an Oriental Pratincole in non-breeding plumage in an unusual habitat, a beach (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Rapid Creek, NT, December 2015]

Lateral view of an Oriental Pratincole in non-breeding plumage (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Newell Beach, QLD, December 2018]

Near-dorsal view of an Oriental Pratincole in non-breeding plumage (photo courtesy of M. Eaton)
[Newell Beach, QLD, December 2018]

Lateral view of an Oriental Pratincole in non-breeding plumage spreading its wings for take-off, thereby exposing the characteristic brown underwings (photo courtesy of J. Greaves)
[Pickertaramoor, Melville Island, NT, December 2016]

Lateral view of an Oriental Pratincole in non-breeding plumage in flight (photo courtesy of J. Greaves)
[Pickertaramoor, Melville Island, NT, December 2016]

Food, Diet

Lateral view of an Oriental Pratincole in non-breeding plumage taking a cockroach (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Rapid Creek, NT, December 2015]

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