Glareola

Glareola is a genus of birds in the family Glareolidae. The pratincoles are a group of birds consisting of the seven species of this genus and the Australian pratincole, the only species of the genus Stiltia.

Glareola
Small pratincole (Glareola lactea)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family:	Glareolidae
Subfamily:	Glareolinae
Genus:	Glareola Brisson, 1760
Type species
Hirundo pratincola Linnaeus, 1766
Species
see text

The genus Glareola was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the collared pratincole (Glareola pratincola) as the type species.^[1][2] The genus name is a diminutive of Latin glarea, "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat.^[3]

Species list

The genus contains seven species:^[4]

• Collared pratincole (Glareola pratincola)
• Oriental pratincole (Glareola maldivarum)
• Black-winged pratincole (Glareola nordmanni)
• Madagascar pratincole (Glareola ocularis)
• Rock pratincole (Glareola nuchalis)
• Grey pratincole (Glareola cinerea)
• Small pratincole (Glareola lactea)