Four-banded Sandgrouse
Pterocles quadricinctusTemminck, CJ, 1815
English (US) Four-banded Sandgrouse
The Four-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles quadricinctus) 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: savanna and thornscrub of sub-Saharan AfricaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pterocles quadricinctus
- Family
- Pteroclidae (Sandgrouse)
- Order
- Pterocliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Four-banded Sandgrouse
- Described by
- Temminck, CJ, 1815
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Temminck, CJ, 1815
- Type locality
- Coromandel, error = Senegal, cf. C. H. B. Grant, Ibis, 1915, p. 35.
- Original description
- Histoire naturelle générale des pigeons et des gallinacés, accompagné de planches anatomiques 3 p.252
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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