Key Identification Features
- While its dark underwings and the absence of a white trailing edge on the wing are defining identifying features, these traits are not always easily visible in the field.
- Its key distinguishing feature from the similar Temminck's courser is a blue-grey hind crown.
- Like its underbelly, its legs are a distinctive creamy white.
- This species is well known for laying its dark ash-black eggs in the burnt bushes and grass of the African savannah.
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