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[HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
15/05/2024 11:55:58 AM
Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
Bronze-winged Courser*
Id (Atlas):
Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
Description (10 )
Bronze-winged Courser
© birding101.co.za
Other Names (World)
Bronze-winged Courser, Violet-tipped Courser
Family
Glareolidae (Coursers, Pratincoles)
Size
28 cm
First Described (Guide )
(Temminck, 1824)
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna.
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Vagrant to Gabon.
Senegal across Sahelian region to southern Sudan and western Ethiopia, thence south to Kenya, Tanzania, southern Zaire and Angola, and to northern and eastern parts of South Africa.
 
Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 1,100,000 (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (4)... )
Listen to XC830765
Bronze-winged Courser (Rhinoptilus chalcopterus ) [XC830765 ]
by Marc Anderson from Kafue National Park, Zambia (song)
Listen to XC398220
Bronze-winged Courser (Rhinoptilus chalcopterus ) [XC398220 ]
by Derek Solomon from Lukusuzi NP, Eastern province, Zambia (call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
References
See References .
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Bronze-winged Courser see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
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