Pratincoles and Coursers
Glareolidae
Glareolidae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadri. It contains two distinct groups, the pratincoles and the coursers. The atypical Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius), traditionally placed in this family, is now known to be only distantly related.
4 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 17 known species
Typical Pratincoles
genusGlareola
Typical Coursers
genusCursorius
Smutsornis
genusSmutsornis
Short-billed Coursers
genusRhinoptilus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 4590.