Africa Wild

Posted: **Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:02 am**

about the size of a starling......

it does not look silly at all......

not that silly that it needs to cover its face ....

Posted: **Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:39 am**

For Richprins who finds that these birds looks silly

Collared Pratincoles, photographed near Maputo, last weekend.

Posted: **Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:14 am**

I told you they were water birds! $O/\$

Posted: **Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:49 am**

Posted: **Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:59 am**

Lis!

Habitat
Wetland margins and open areas near water.

Posted: **Tue Oct 30, 2018 1:28 pm**

Richprins wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:59 am Lis!

Habitat
Wetland margins and open areas near water.

Also Thousands swarm over summer Mealie Fields in the OFS

Posted: **Tue Oct 30, 2018 1:52 pm**

Richprins wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:59 am Lis!

Habitat
Wetland margins and open areas near water.

that does not make them sea birds or waders

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or silly looking.......

Posted: **Tue Oct 30, 2018 3:32 pm**

Posted: **Tue Oct 30, 2018 6:35 pm**

They belong to the same familly as coursers, so not really waders, and to the same order as plovers or sandpipers, so not so far either...

Pratincoles & Coursers Family Glareolidae