Pteroclididae
Pin-tailed Sandgrouse
Pterocles alchata (Linnaeus, 1766)
Pterocles alchata, the pin-tailed sandgrouse, is a medium-sized open-dry-habitat bird found across North Africa, the Middle East and southern Europe.
Double-banded Sandgrouse
Pterocles bicinctus Temminck, 1815
The double-banded sandgrouse is a moderately-sized African bird found in open, sparsely vegetated habitats across southern Africa.
Burchell's Sandgrouse
Pterocles burchelli W.L.Sclater, 1922
Burchell's sandgrouse is a desert-adapted bird found across southern Africa that carries water in belly feathers to feed its chicks.
Crowned Sandgrouse
Pterocles coronatus Lichtenstein, 1823
Pterocles coronatus, the crowned sandgrouse, is a small desert-dwelling bird found from North Africa through the Middle East to Pakistan.
Black-faced Sandgrouse
Pterocles decoratus Cabanis, 1868
Pterocles decoratus, the black-faced sandgrouse, is a medium-sized East African dry-habitat bird with distinct plumage differences between sexes.
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
Pterocles exustus Temminck, 1825
Pterocles exustus, the chestnut-bellied sandgrouse, is a six-subspecies arid-zone bird found across Africa and western/southern Asia.
Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
Pterocles gutturalis A.Smith, 1836
Pterocles gutturalis, the yellow-throated sandgrouse, is an arid-corridor adapted bird with distinct plumage differences between sexes and subspecies.
Painted Sandgrouse
Pterocles indicus (Gmelin, 1789)
Pterocles indicus, the painted sandgrouse, is a plump ground bird with distinctly different coloration between sexes.
Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse
Pterocles lichtensteinii Temminck, 1825
Lichtenstein's sandgrouse is a mostly nocturnal nomadic bird in the Pteroclidae family found across parts of Africa and Asia.
Namaqua Sandgrouse
Pterocles namaqua (Gmelin, 1789)
Pterocles namaqua, the Namaqua sandgrouse, is a medium-sized arid-dwelling bird native to southern Africa.
Black-bellied Sandgrouse
Pterocles orientalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pterocles orientalis, the black-bellied sandgrouse, is a large gregarious sandgrouse that breeds in dry open plains.
Four-banded Sandgrouse
Pterocles quadricinctus Temminck, 1815
Pterocles quadricinctus (four-banded sandgrouse) is a 25–28 cm African bird found in savannas and scrublands from Mauritania to Uganda.
Spotted Sandgrouse
Pterocles senegallus (Linnaeus, 1771)
Pterocles senegallus, the spotted sandgrouse, is a North African and Middle Eastern arid-land bird listed as least concern by the IUCN.
Pallas's Sandgrouse
Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pallas, 1773)
Pallas's sandgrouse (Syrrhaptes paradoxus) is a distinctive steppe bird native to central Asia that occasionally vagrates to western Europe.
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