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 LC    Four-banded Sandgrouse* Id (Atlas):
    Pterocles quadricinctus

Description (10)
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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

Range (Guide)
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.
 
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) [XC360436]
     by Peter Boesman from West Gonja, Northern Region, Ghana (call)

 
Four-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles quadricinctus) [XC719459]
     by Andr\u00e1s Schmidt from Tono Dam, Upper East, Ghana (flight 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:
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