Small pratincole pratincole can be briefly confused in flight with swifts or swallows. This bird has short legs, long pointed wings and a short tail. Its short bill is an adaptation to aerial feeding. On the ground, it looks mainly pale grey (hence "lactea", milky). The crown of the head is brown. The wings are grey above with black primaries and black and white bars at the rear edge of the inner flight feathers. The underwings are mainly black. The tail is white with a black terminal triangle. The belly is white. The most unusual feature of the pratincoles is that although
Collared pratincole Collared pratincole The collared pratincole ("Glareola pratincola"), also known as the common pratincole or red-winged pratincole, is a wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae. As with other pratincoles, it is native to the Old World. The genus name is a diminutive of Latin "glarea", "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat for pratincoles. The species name "pratincola" means an inhabitant of meadows, from Latin "pratum, prati", "meadow" and "incola", "inhabitant", from "incolere", "to inhabit". This pratincole is long with a wingspan. It has short legs, long pointed wings, a long forked tail, and a short bill, which is an adaptation