page_title: List of birds of Telangana
section_title: Pratincoles and coursers
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Telangana / Pratincoles and coursers
caption_attribution_description: English: Yellow-wattled Lapwing (Vanellus malabaricus). Jamnagar, Gujarat. .DPP 0066
context_page_description: The official state bird of Telangana, India, is the pala pitta, also known as the Indian roller, Coracias benghalensis. The latest update follows the conventions of the IOC World Bird List, version 10.2, published in 2020.
context_section_description: Order: Charadriiformes   Family: Glareolidae
  Glareolidae is a family of wading birds comprising the pratincoles, which have short legs, long, pointed wings and long, forked tails, and the coursers, which have long legs, short wings and long, pointed bills which curve downwards.
  Indian courser, Cursorius coromandelicus
  Jerdon's courser, Rhinoptilus bitorquatus
  Oriental pratincole, Glareola maldivarum
  Small pratincole, Glareola lactea
caption: Yellow-wattled lapwing
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