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 LC    Spotted Sandgrouse* Id (Atlas):
    Pterocles senegallus

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Spotted Sandgrouse, Northern Spotted Sandgrouse, Saharan Sandgrouse

Family
Pteroclidae (Sandgrouse)

Size
33 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1771)

Range (Guide)
Afghanistan (NB), Algeria, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (B) (NB), Israel (B), Jordan (B) (NB), Kuwait (B) (NB), Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman (B), Pakistan, Palestinian Authority Territories (B) (NB), Saudi Arabia (B), Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara (B).

Vagrant to Italy, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey.

Unknown to United Arab Emirates.

Southern Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauritania through Sahara Desert to Ethiopia and northern Somalia, and on through Arabian Peninsula and Iraq to Pakistan and north-western India, where occurs in Indian and Thar Deserts.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (38)...)

 
Spotted Sandgrouse (Pterocles) [XC460668]
     by Peter Boesman from Al Mazynah, Dhofar Governorate, Oman (flight call)

 
Spotted Sandgrouse (Pterocles) [XC360629]
     by Guy Kirwan from Gleb Jdiane, Western Sahara, Morocco (flight call)

Subspecies
Birds of India formerly separated as subspecies remotus.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
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