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.

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) [XC781457]
by Oliver Fowler from Oman, Mudayy, Oman (flight call)

Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus) [XC277093]
by Andrew Spencer from Aledeghe WIldlife Reserve, Ethiopia (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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