Black-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles) [XC811580]
by SonoNatura from La Mora\u00f1a (near Donvidas), \u00c1vila, Castilla y Le\u00f3n, Spain (flight call)
Black-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis) [XC813631]
by Peter Boesman from Taukum desert, Kazakhstan (call)
Subspecies
Birds of Iberia and north-western Africa formerly separated as subspecies aragonica. Possible subspecies enigmaticus, koslovae and bangsi now included in nominate.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
orientalis (Linnaeus, 1758) - Iberian Peninsula, Canary Is (Fuerteventura, Lanzarote) and north-western Africa from Morocco to north-western Libya. Also Cyprus, Israel, Anatolia and Armenia.
arenarius (Pallas, 1775) - North-western Kazakhstan east to north-western China (north-western Xinjiang), and south to Iran, Afghanistan and south-western Pakistan (Baluchistan).