The Rock Pratincole is a small, dark bird with white rump and underwing markings. It breeds by fast, rocky rivers; the southern African population moves seasonally.
It is a small, dark, short-legged bird with a white rump and white stripes on the underwings.
Along the Zambezi, birds arrive from late July, usually in August, and breed from August to December, mainly September to November.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.