Burchell's Courser
Cursorius rufusGould, J, 1837
English (US) Burchell's Courser
The Burchell's Courser (Cursorius rufus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Glareolidae (Coursers and Pratincoles) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: semidesert of southwestern Angola to Namibia, Botswana, and South AfricaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Cursorius rufus
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Burchell's Courser
- Described by
- Gould, J, 1837
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Gould, J, 1837
- Type locality
- Islands in the Indian Ocean, error = Potchefstroom, Transvaal, apud Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 299.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London pt.4, no.45 p.81
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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