Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata) [XC688477]
by David Darrell-Lambert from Mas Chauvet \/ ISTRES, France (call)
Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata) [XC730393]
by Stanislas Wroza from Campo de Belchite (near Codo), Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain (flight call)
Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
alchata (Linnaeus, 1766) - Iberian Peninsula and south-eastern France.
caudacutus (Gmelin, SG, 1774) - North-western Africa, from Morocco east to northern Libya; south-eastern Turkey and Middle East through Iraq and Iran east to Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan.