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 LC    Bronze-winged Courser* Id (Atlas):
    Rhinoptilus chalcopterus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Bronze-winged Courser, Violet-tipped Courser

Family
Glareolidae (Coursers, Pratincoles)

Size
28 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Temminck, 1824)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Gabon.

Senegal across Sahelian region to southern Sudan and western Ethiopia, thence south to Kenya, Tanzania, southern Zaire and Angola, and to northern and eastern parts of South Africa.
 
Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 1,100,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (4)...)

 
Bronze-winged Courser (Rhinoptilus chalcopterus) [XC489187]
     by Marc Anderson from Hoedspruit, South Africa (call)

 
Bronze-winged Courser (Rhinoptilus chalcopterus) [XC834623]
     by Marc Anderson from Manyeleti Game Reserve, South Africa (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Bronze-winged Courser (Rhinoptilus chalcopterus) - 10 files


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