AUSTRALIAN PRATINCOLE

Indonesia : Terik Australia

Scientific name : Stiltia isabella Vieillot, 1816

Synonim : Glareola isabella

Forms apparent link between coursers and pratincoles. Sometimes included in genus Glareola, or at other extreme in its own subfamily Stiltiinae. Monotypic.

Distribution: Drier regions of N & E Australia, spreading further S in wetter years, but absent from SW; breeds sporadically throughout Australian range, but seldom N of 18° S; two breeding records in Trans-Fly, S New Guinea. Migrates to N Queensland and Northern Territory, New Guinea and E Indonesian archipelago to West Indonesia (Java, Bali, Sumatera?) as far NW as S Borneo. [ more >> ]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

:: Photos

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

All right reserved copyright by Asman Adi Purwanto [ AAP ] – Email: raptor.aap@gmail.com & asman_adi@yahoo.com

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s