#0947 · 🐦 birds

Black-winged Pratincole

🇳🇱 Steppevorkstaartplevier ·Glareola nordmanni

NTnear threatened 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Vyacheslav Luzanov · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Илья Сухов · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Marcel Holyoak · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Axel Gosseries · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Moskva, RU:© Антон Мир-Мар · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Apanasenkovskiy rayon, RU-ST, RU:© Vyacheslav Luzanov · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Shetland Islands, Scotland, GB:© Matthew Bruce · CC BY 4.0
8. Apanasenkovskiy rayon, RU-ST, RU:© veb74 · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Nkangala District Municipality, South Africa:© Roelof van der Breggen · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Svetloyarskiy rayon, RU-VG, RU:© Евгений Софронов · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The black-winged pratincole ( Glareola nordmanni ) 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.

base stats

NL sightings 3iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 809iNaturalist observations
weight 97 gadult, up to
threat NTnear threatened

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 3 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
809 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 97 g.
Scientifically named by Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim in 1842 (184 years ago).

fact sheet

English: Black-winged Pratincole
Nederlands: Steppevorkstaartplevier
scientific name: Glareola nordmanni
class: Aves
order: Charadriiformes
family: Glareolidae
IUCN Red List: NT · near threatened
sightings in NL: 3
sightings in Europe: 395
sightings worldwide: 809
GBIF records in NL: 3,497
weight: 97 g
length: —
lifespan: —
named: 1842 by Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim

IUCN in Dutch: gevoelig. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Glareolidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 4605, Wikidata Q695729, GBIF 2480758, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.