Black-winged Pratincole

How to identify

Field marks

1. Black underwing, with no white feather edges along the trailing edge
2. Brown back and head; black flight feathers
3. Long, pointed wings and forked tail; short-legged
4. White belly

Similar species

Collared Pratincole

Black-winged Pratincole is slightly larger and longer-legged than Collared Pratincole, with a shorter tail; its underwing is black and lacks white feather edges along the trailing edge, while Collared Pratincole has a chestnut underwing that can also look black when poorly seen.

Where and when it's recorded

Black-winged Pratincole has been recorded at 200 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 51 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Kgomo-KgomoSouth Africa202 records
2. Besh Barmag bottleneckAzerbaijan123 records
3. Zaagkuildrift RdSouth Africa102 records

Countries and regions with the most records

South AfricaIsraelKazakhstanBotswanaAzerbaijanUnited KingdomGeorgiaKuwait

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The black-winged pratincole (Glareola nordmanni) 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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