Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus)

Other Names (World)
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse, Indian Sandgrouse, Common Indian Sandgrouse, Small Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, Lesser Pin-tailed Sandgrouse

Family
Pteroclidae (Sandgrouse)

Size
32 cm

First Described (Guide)
Temminck, 1825

Range (Guide)

Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-bissau, India, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B) (NB), Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Oman (B), Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.

Vagrant to Gambia, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait.

Introduced to USA.

Unknown to Afghanistan.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (51)...)

Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus) [XC554740]
by Jelle Scharringa from Upper Baddibu, North Bank Division, Gambia (flight call)

Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus) [XC510379]
by Peter Boesman from Engikaret Lark plains, Arusha, Tanzania (call)

Subspecies
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

exustus Temminck, 1825 - Mauritania and Senegambia east to Sudan.
floweri ! Nicoll, 1921 - Nile Valley in central Egypt (almost certainly extinct).
ellioti Bogdanov, 1881 - South-eastern Sudan east to Eritrea, northern Ethiopia and Somalia.
olivascens (Hartert, 1909) - Southern Ethiopia, Kenya and northern Tanzania.
erlangeri (Neumann, 1909) - Western and southern Arabian Peninsula.
hindustan Meinertzhagen, R, 1923 - South-eastern Iran, Pakistan and most of India.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus) - 10 files

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