The Oriental Pratincole is a distinctive, swallow-like wader known for its aerial insect-catching, long pointed wings, and forked tail, often mistaken for a tern and even at times for a small raptor or accipiter, and even for a beeeeater sepcies, especially when on migration or thermalling. Key features include a buff-orange throat with a black-and-white border, chestnut underwings (visible in flight), and a white rump, making it a common but migratory sight in Asian grasslands, like paddyfields and wetlands, ranging from Asia to Australia.

It is one of the few species of birds that are breeding visior or breeding migrant to West Malaysia, it will breed here and return to the more northern temperate countries. They will breed in wasteland, especially transient dumpsite, just ploughed paddyfield or other plantation land like oil palm and rubber.

There are large breeding colonies in Seberang Perai, but mostly temporary as their breeding sites are developed into housing, industrail estate and other building and infrastructures. Population estimates for the whole Seberang should be in the low thousands. At their nesting grounds the parents will faked a broken wing to distract or lure away intruders from their “nest:” which is just a scrap on the barren ground with some little pebbles to camouflage their eggs.

https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/oriental-pratincole-glareola-maldivarum