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Oriental Pratincole

April 2025: I was very happy to catch an Oriental Pratincole inflight. A very elegant looking bird - Sultanpur National Park, India 🇮🇳

From eBird: Twisting and turning on long, angular wings, this relative of the sandpipers and plovers gives a swallowlike impression in flight. Adults are brown overall with an elegant black necklace and pale yellow throat. When in flight, note dark flight feathers, chestnut underwing coverts, lack of a bright white trailing edge to the wings, and a flashing white rump

 

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Uploaded on April 26, 2025
Taken on April 25, 2025