Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
Four-banded Sandgrouse*
Id (Atlas):
Pterocles quadricinctus
Description (10 )
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.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (15)... )
Listen to XC266883
Four-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles quadricinctus ) [XC266883 ]
by Andrew Spencer from Gambela, trail from the Metu road to the Baro River, Ethiopia (call)
Listen to XC164456
Four-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles quadricinctus ) [XC164456 ]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Kaffrine, Senegal (flight call, song)
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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