Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
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Four-banded Sandgrouse* |
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Pterocles quadricinctus |
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Description (10)
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Four-banded Sandgrouse
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Other Names (World)
Four-banded Sandgrouse, Lowe's Four-banded Sandgrouse
Family
Pteroclidae (Sandgrouse)
Size
25 - 28 cm
First Described (Guide)
Temminck, 1815
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.
Vagrant to Guinea, Sierra Leone.
Senegambia, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan, east to Ethiopia, south to Ghana, Nigeria, northern Uganda and north-western Kenya.
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Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (15)...)
Four-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles quadricinctus) [XC690867]
by Albert Vrielink from Mole National Park, Ghana (flight call)
Four-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles quadricinctus) [XC857228]
by Alain Malengreau from Larabanga, West Gonja, Northern Region, Ghana (call)
Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Painted Sandgrouse (Pterocles indicus). Also closely related to Double-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles bicinctus) and Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse (Pterocles lichtensteinii).
Birds to the east of L Chad were separated as subspecies lowei.
No subspecies.
References
See References.
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Four-banded Sandgrouse see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
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