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Type:
Aves
Order:
Charadriiformes
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General Background:
The pratincoles or greywaders are a group of birds which together with the coursers and Egyptian plover make up the family Glareolidae. They have short legs, very long pointed wings and long forked tails.
Glareolidae is a family of wading birds comprising the pratincoles, which have short legs, long pointed wings and long forked tails, and the coursers, which have long legs, short wings and long, pointed bills which curve downwards. There are 17 species worldwide and 7 species which occur in Zimbabwe.
Courser and pranticole species found in Zimbabwe:
- Double-banded courser
- Three-banded courser
- Bronze-winged courser
- Temminck's courser
- Black-winged pratincole
- Rock pratincole
- Collared pratincole
Places in which they are found in Zimbabwe: