🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Oriental Pratincole live?

Glareola maldivarum has 70,584 records in 58 countries and territories, from 1867 to 2026. Most records come from Taiwan.

AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesGlareolidaeGlareola

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Taiwan 30,426
Thailand 10,046
India 6,772
Australia 4,440
Cambodia 4,272
China 2,993
Malaysia 1,936
Philippines 1,727
Hong Kong 1,694
Singapore 922
Sweden 810
Japan 620
Laos 609
Sri Lanka 425
Netherlands 412
Vietnam 348
Indonesia 300
South Korea 259
United Kingdom 208
Myanmar 186
Denmark 165
Bangladesh 141
Norway 140
Timor-Leste 104
Cocos Islands 96
Christmas Island 92
Germany 58
Palau 57
British Indian Ocean Territory 52
Nepal 26
Micronesia 25
Papua New Guinea 23
United Arab Emirates 21
Mongolia 20
Madagascar 18
Macao 17
Brunei 14
Pakistan 14
Russia 13
Finland 11

Showing the top 40 of 58 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Glareolidae.

Cream-colored Courser
19,546 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.