Pratincoles & Coursers Family Glareolidae

Post by **leachy** » Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:02 am

about the size of a starling......

it does not look silly at all......

not that silly that it needs to cover its face ....

Post by **Dindingwe** » Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:39 am

For Richprins who finds that these birds looks silly

Collared Pratincoles, photographed near Maputo, last weekend.

Post by **Richprins** » Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:14 am

I told you they were water birds! $O/\$

Post by **Lisbeth** » Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:49 am

Post by **Richprins** » Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:59 am

Lis!

Habitat
Wetland margins and open areas near water.

Post by **Peter Betts** » Tue Oct 30, 2018 1:28 pm

Richprins wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:59 am Lis!

Habitat
Wetland margins and open areas near water.

Also Thousands swarm over summer Mealie Fields in the OFS

Post by **leachy** » Tue Oct 30, 2018 1:52 pm

Richprins wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:59 am Lis!

Habitat
Wetland margins and open areas near water.

that does not make them sea birds or waders

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or silly looking.......

Post by **Flutterby** » Tue Oct 30, 2018 3:32 pm

Post by **Dindingwe** » Tue Oct 30, 2018 6:35 pm

They belong to the same familly as coursers, so not really waders, and to the same order as plovers or sandpipers, so not so far either...

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