Sandgrouse
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Sandgrouse
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common name for pigeon-sized, seed-eating, terrestrial birds of the genera Pteroclida (approximately 14 species) and Syrrhaptes (2 species).
Sandgrouse share several trits with pigeons, including their long wings and the practice of making long flights daily between breeding or feeding grounds, and pools of water at which they drink.
Sandgrouse are usually on the alert for danger. When they are startled, they often fly almost straight up into the air. They feed primarly on seeds, as well as grasses, herbs, and mustard leaves.
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Spotted Sandgrouse Pterocles senegallus - Flock in flight
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Double-banded Sandgrouse
Pterocles bicinctus
The Double-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles bicinctus) is widespread and fairly common across much of the arid regions of southern Africa.
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (male)
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus) is a scarce resident in arid regions of north-western India. Size: 31-33 cm ...
SANDGROUSE (Pteroclidae) Pteroclidae Sandgrouse
Black-faced Sandgrouse (Pterocles decoratus)
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Sandgrouse, Namaqu Pterocles namaqua Found: Africa
Photographed by: Mogens Trolle in the Kalahari desert
Sandgrouse, Spotted Pterocles senegallus Found: Africa
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Sandgrouse have small, pigeon like heads and necks, but sturdy compact bodies. They have long pointed wings and sometimes tails and a fast direct flight. Flocks fly to watering holes at dawn and dusk.
PTEROCLIDIFORMES
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parrots, macaws, parakeets, cockatoos, cockatiels, lorikeets, & budgerigars ...
Volume 4: Sandgrouse to Cuckoos. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Jackson, M.H. (1993) Galápagos: A Natural History. University of Calgary Press, Calgary.
Santiago-Alarcon, D., Tanksley, S.M. and Parker, P.G.
The pigeons and their allies form a distinctive group (order Columbiformes) comprising two families: the sandgrouse (Pteroclidae) and pigeons (Columbidae). They are medium-sized birds differing from all others in certain features.
Family Pteroclididae (sandgrouse)
Family Recurvirostridae (avocets and stilts)
Family Rostratulidae (painted snipe) ...
Johnsgard, Paul A.. Bustards, Hemipodes, and Sandgrouse, Birds of Dry Places. Oxford University Press. 1991.
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One should also look or listen out for avian gems such as Stone Curlew, Black-bellied Sandgrouse, Black-eared Wheatear, Tawny Pipit, Red-billed Chough, and Montagu's Harrier.
species of several are regularly wont to wander beyond its limits in winter seeking a southern climate. Of the peculiar genera only a few examples may be mentioned: Eurynorhynchus, the spoon-billed sandpiper of Siberia; Syrrhaptes, the sandgrouse of ...
 See also: Pigeon, Flamingo, Petrel, Stork, Nightjar
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