Black-winged Pratincole
Glareola nordmanni
- Near threatened
- Card rarity: Uncommon
- Birds
The black-winged pratincole 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.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Glareolidae
- Genus
- Glareola