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  glareola - OneLook Dictionary Search
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glareola : WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
Phrases that include glareola: glareola maldivarum, glareola nordmanni, glareola pratincola, tringa glareola
www.onelook.com /?w=glareola   (96 words)

  
  Coursers and Pratincoles
It is particularly partial to recently burned areas, and may appear within hours of the a recent fire.
In contrast, most pratincoles (7 species in the genus Glareola) are often water edge birds, some preferring muddy margins of lakes or estuaries.
Glareola pratincola was also at Lake Jipe on 26 Nov 1981.
www.montereybay.com /creagrus/coursers.html   (1056 words)

  
 OSME - Oriental Pratincole in Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
It was initially idenitified as a Black-winged Pratincole Glareola nordmanni based on the apparently uniform dark underwing; the absence of a white trailing edge to the secondaries; and the lac k of contrast on the upperwing.
The initial identification was obviously erroneous as the bird then stretched its wings, exhibiting chestnut on the underwings in the process.
The pratincole took flight and was watched as it circled the ponds feeding on insects.
www.osme.org /sand181/orntprat.html   (826 words)

  
 Oriental Pratincole - Glareola maldivarum - CICONIIFORMES - Birds of Haryana - North India - Birding - Fauna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Oriental Pratincole - Glareola maldivarum - CICONIIFORMES - Birds of Haryana - North India - Birding - Fauna
(Glareola maldivarum) is a scarce summer breeding visitor/resident in Haryana.
This bird is found in wetlands and open plains.
www.haryana-online.com /Fauna/Birds/oriental_pratincole.htm   (57 words)

  
 Glareola ocularis - Madagascar Pratincole
AEWA - African-Eurasian Migratory Water Bird Agreement -- Glareola ocularis Madagascar Pratincole.
Glareola ocularis, J Verreaux, 1833, Family: Glareolidae, Order:
ADW: Glareola ocularis: Classification -- Glareola ocularis (Madagascar pratincole).
www.wildmadagascar.org /wildlife/species/birds/Glareola_ocularis.html   (149 words)

  
 Small Pratincole (Glareola lactea) - BirdLife species factsheet
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Recommended citation BirdLife International (2007) Species factsheet: Glareola lactea.
This information is based upon, and updates, the information published in BirdLife International (2000) Threatened birds of the world.
www.birdlife.org /datazone/sites/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3193&m=0   (288 words)

  
 OCCURRENCE OF MIGRANT SHOREBIRDS IN THE MARIANA ISLANDS
The Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus), Gray-tailed Tattler (Heteroscelus brevipes), and Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) were common, and the Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola), Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos), Wandering Tattler (Heteroscelus interpres), Rufous-necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis), and Mongolian Plover (Charadrius mongolus) were uncommon migrants and winter visitors.
A greater number and variety of shorebirds were seen during autumnal migration, which coincides with flooding of seasonal wetlands and higher shorebird populations, than during spring migration.
Migrantes comunes incluyen a Numenius phaeopus, Heteroscelus brevipes y Arenaria interpres, mientras que Tringa glareola, Actitis hypoleucos, Heteroscelus interpres, Calidris ruficollis y Charadrius mongolus resultaron visitantes invernales y migratorios raros.
elibrary.unm.edu /sora/JFO/v068n01/p0042-p0055.html   (10016 words)

  
 Avian Demography Unit: Results: Pratincoles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
There are 8 Cursor species worldwide, of which 5 occur in southern Africa.
There are 7 species in the genus Glareola, of which 3 occur in southern Africa.
Relatively few Coursers and Pratincoles have been ringed in southern Africa.
web.uct.ac.za /depts/stats/adu/safring/results/0276cour.htm   (206 words)

  
 Coursers and Pratincoles (Glareolidae): Birds
Collared Pratincole (Glareola pratincola) - Images and Sound.
Collared Pratincole (Glareola pratincola) - Text and Image.
Glareola pratincola - Rostflügel-Brachschwalbe - Halsbandgiarol Glareola nordmanni - Schwarzflügel Brachschwalbe - Schwarzflügliger Giarol - Abbildung.
www.infochembio.ethz.ch /links/en/zool_voegel_rennvoegel.html   (105 words)

  
 Brontë Sources, Texts, and Criticism
THIS species of Tringa appears to be a rare bird in this country, and to find proper names for it, has been attended with doubts and difficulties.
Latham names it glareola, but treats of it as a variety of the Tringa ochropus (Green Sandpiper) of Linnæus, and the Tringa littorea, or young of the same, and also as the Shore Sandpiper of the Arctic Zoology.
The specimen from which the above figure was engraven, was lent to this work by N. Vigors, Esq.
faculty.plattsburgh.edu /peter.friesen?go=926   (120 words)

  
 Black-winged Pratincole (Glareola nordmanni) - BirdLife species factsheet
Black-winged Pratincole (Glareola nordmanni) - BirdLife species factsheet
Summary Glareola nordmanni has a very large range, breeding in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Kazakhstan and sporadically in Belarus, Hungary and Azerbaijan.
Recommended citation BirdLife International (2007) Species factsheet: Glareola nordmanni.
www.birdlife.org /datazone/sites/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3189&m=0   (952 words)

  
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Tringa glareola LINNÉ 1758, the Wood Sandpiper lives during breeding time in marshy areas or at lakes and rivers.
Beyond the breeding time he can be found at lakes, ponds and other waters with muddy shores.
mugil.gfxartist.com /artworks/85925   (278 words)

  
 Birds of India - CICONIIFORMES - Accipiters - Aquilas - Falcons - Herons - Ardeidae - Birders - Birding in India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Crab Plover Dromas ardeola - sparse winter visitor
Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola - sparse winter visitor
Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola - widespread winter visitor
www.birding.in /orders/ciconiiformes.htm   (984 words)

  
 Definition of glareola - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=Glareola   (82 words)

  
 Oriental Bird Club Image Database : Collared Pratincole » Glareola pratincola
Oriental Bird Club Image Database : Collared Pratincole » Glareola pratincola
Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola pratincola - Adult in breeding plumage
Nikon Coolpix 800 and Swarovski HD 80 telescope.
www.orientalbirdimages.org /birdimages.php?action=birdspecies&Bird_ID=931&Bird_Image_ID=4936   (36 words)

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