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 LC    Namaqua Sandgrouse* Id (Atlas):
    Pterocles namaqua

Description (10)
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Family
Pteroclidae (Sandgrouse)

Size
25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1789)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna, hot desert.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

South-western Angola and Namibia east to south-western Zimbabwe, and south through Botswana, western Transvaal and Orange Free State to southern Cape Province.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A nasal 'kelkie-vein' uttered in flight.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (28)...)

 
Namaqua Sandgrouse (Pterocles namaqua) [XC395385]
     by Lynette Rudman from Koa Dunes, Northern Cape, South Africa (flight call)

 
Namaqua Sandgrouse (Pterocles namaqua) [XC392676]
     by Frank Lambert from P2250, Tangua, Western Cape, South Africa (call)

Subspecies
May be closely related to Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus).

Birds from northern part of range formerly separated as subspecies ngami, those of southern and south-eastern as furva.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Namaqua Sandgrouse (Pterocles namaqua) - 10 files


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