Black-winged Pratincole

Black-winged Pratincole / Glareola nordmanni

Black-winged Pratincole

Here the details of the Black-winged Pratincole named bird below:

SCI Name:  Glareola nordmanni
Protonym:  Glareola Nordmanni Bull.Soc.Imp.Nat.Moscou 15 p.314 pl.2
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Glareolidae /
Taxonomy Code:  blwpra1
Type Locality:  Steppes of southern Russia.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1842
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

GLAREOLA
(Glareolidae; Ϯ Collared Pratincole G. pratincola) Mod. L. glareola  little gravel (bird)  < dim. L. glarea  gravel; "Glareola. Genus 73.  ...  Genus Glareolæ   Le genre de la Perdrix-de-mer.  ...  **1. LA PERDRIX-DE-MER.  ...  GLAREOLA.  ...  On la trouve sur les bords de la mer, des rivieres & des étangs" (Brisson 1760): ex "Koppriegerle" of Gessner 1555, "Hirundo marina" of Aldrovandus 1599-1603, Jonston 1650-1653 and Charleton 1668, "Glareola" and "Sand-Vogel" of Schwenkfeld 1603, and "Pratincola" of Kramer 1756; "Glareola Brisson, Orn., 1760, 1, p. 48; 5, p. 141. Type, by tautonymy, Glareola Brisson = Hirundo pratincola Linné." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 303).
Var. GlareoleaGlariola.   
Synon. Dromochelidon, Galachrysia, Pratincola, Subglareola, Trachelia.

glareola
Dim. < L. glarea  gravel (probably used in the broadest sense of waterside habitat).
● "109. Charadrius Glareola F.  (Fig. pict. G.)  Charadrius fuscus, pectore abdomineque rufescentibus, remigibus fuscis 6—10 medio, 11—12 apice albis.   Habitat ad littora glareosa insulae australis Novae Zeelandiae.   Corpus magnitudine circiter Scolopacis rusticolae." (Forster 1844 (ed. Lichtenstein)) (syn. Charadrius obscurus).
● ex Glareola Brisson, 1760, pratincole, and Glareola austriaca J. Gmelin, 1798 (syn. Glareola pratincola).
● "78. TRINGA.  ...  Glareola.  11. T. rostro lævi, pedibus virescentibus, corpore albo punctato, pectore subalbido. Fn. svec. 152.  Habitat in Europa.” (Linnaeus 1758) (Tringa).

nordmanni
Alexander von Nordmann (1803-1866) Finnish zoologist, explorer (Glareola (ex Glareola melanoptera von Nordmann MS), subsp. Lamprotornis chalybaeus).