Burchell's Sandgrouse
Pterocles burchelliSclater, WL, 1922
English (US) Burchell's Sandgrouse
The Burchell's Sandgrouse (Pterocles burchelli) 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 Pteroclidae (Sandgrouse) in the order Pterocliformes.
Range: southeastern Angola to Namibia, Botswana, and northern Cape ProvinceRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pterocles burchelli
- Family
- Pteroclidae (Sandgrouse)
- Order
- Pterocliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Burchell's Sandgrouse
- Described by
- Sclater, WL, 1922
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Pterocles (Eremialector) burchelli
- Described by
- Sclater, WL, 1922
- Type locality
- Eremialector
- Original description
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 42 p.74
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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