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,םדמדא-םוחב תועובצה תונותחתה ףנכה תוככוסב ףנכ-תמודא תימדשל המוד :תיחרזמ תימדש | ||||||||||
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Subspecies and Distribution.
Glareola maldivarum Siberia, NE Mongolia and S Manchuria S to N India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and SE Asia. Winters from India and SE Asia through Indonesia and New Guinea to Australia. | ||||||||||
Descriptive notes.3-24 cm, 85-88 g. Above olive brown, with white rump, throat ochre yellow, edged with narrow black collar, upper breast brown, shading to rufous and then white on belly and undertail. Flight feathers black, undewing chestnut. Forked tail black, white at base. Bill black with red gape. Legs blackish.Habitat.Inhabits steppes, open grassland, dry floodplains, tidal mudflats, rice stubble, ploughed and fallow fields and open pastures, usually near water.Food and FeedingInsects and other terrestrial arthropods, especially grasshoppers, crickets and beetles.Prey caught mainly in flight but some also on ground. Often crepuscular. Breeding.May- Apr-Jun. Nests in colonies on open plains, often recent grass fire, also on grassy islands in rivers with terns.Nest is a shallow scrape or dried hoofprint. 2-3 eggs. Incubation and fledging periods unknown. Movements.NE populations are long distance migrants S to winter mainly in SE Asia, Indonesia and AustraliaMost of Indian breeding population resident, locally nomadic, or short distance migrants. Rare but annual, Oct to Mar, in New Guinea, birds overfly to N Australia Dec-Feb, when absent to N, therefore large portion of migratory population may be in Australia at this time. Uncommon migrant to W Micronesia. Vagrant to New Zealand, seychelles and Mauritius, Arabian Peninsula, England, Cyprus and Aleutians. Accidentall visitor in Israel. Status and ConservationNot globally threatened. Numbers in winter in Indian Subcontinent in broad range of 25,000-1,000,000 birds.Israel.In Israel subspecies Glareola maldivarum. Accidental visitor. |
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