Editing Collared pratincole (section)

==Taxonomy==
The collared pratincole was [[Species description|formally described]] by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in 1766 in the [[12th edition of Systema Naturae|twelfth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]''. He placed it with the swallows and swifts in the genus ''[[Hirundo]]'' and coined the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] ''Hirundo pratincola''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1766 | title=Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | edition=12th | volume=1, Part 1 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii  | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | page=345 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42946541 }}</ref> The collared pratincole is now placed in the genus ''[[Glareola]]'' that was introduced by the French zoologist [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]] in 1760.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Brisson | first=Mathurin Jacques | author-link=Mathurin Jacques Brisson | year=1760 | title=Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés | language=French, Latin | at=[https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36010447 Vol. 1, p. 48], [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36294427 Vol. 5, p. 141] | place=Paris | publisher=Jean-Baptiste Bauche }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=August 2022 | title=Sandpipers, snipes, Crab-plover, coursers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 12.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sandpipers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=28 August 2022 }}</ref> The genus name is a diminutive of [[Latin]] ''glarea'', "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat for pratincoles. The species name ''pratincola'' means an inhabitant of meadows, from  [[Latin]] ''pratum, prati'',  "meadow" and ''incola'',  "inhabitant",  from ''incolere'', "to inhabit".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages=[https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n174/mode/1up 174], [https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n315/mode/1up 315–6]}}</ref>

Two [[subspecies]] are recognised:<ref name=ioc/>
* ''Glareola pratincola pratincola'', <small>([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1766)</small> – [[southern Europe]] & [[North Africa]] to south [[Pakistan]]
* ''Glareola pratincola fuelleborni'', <small>[[Oscar Neumann|Neumann]], 1910</small> – [[sub-Saharan Africa]] from Senegal to central Ethiopia and south Somalia south to east South Africa (includes ''erlangeri'' and ''riparia'')