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Oriental Pratincole
Glareola maldivarum · Family Glareolidae
Glareola maldivarum
Family Glareolidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Glareolidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 71,393
- Countries and territories with records
- 64
About this species
This species has 71,393 occurrence records from 64 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (42.8%), Thailand (14.3%), India (9.5%), Australia (6.3%) and Cambodia (6%); together they account for 79% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.14% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Glareola maldivarum combines the genus name Glareola with the species epithet maldivarum. The Warbla app catalog lists 8 species of the genus Glareola; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Glareola pratincola, Glareola lactea and Glareola isabella.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 17 species of the family Glareolidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Glareola pratincola. Its record count is 3.5 times the family average (20,243). The family Glareolidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.