Jerdon's Courser
Rhinoptilus bitorquatus(Blyth, E, 1848)
English (US) Jerdon's Courser
The Jerdon's Courser (Rhinoptilus bitorquatus) 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: tropical scrub jungle of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh (east-central India); extremely rare, no recent recordsRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Rhinoptilus bitorquatus
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Critically Endangered
- English (US)
- Jerdon's Courser
- Described by
- (Blyth, E, 1848)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Macrotarsius bitorquatus
- Described by
- (Blyth, E, 1848)
- Type locality
- Eastern Ghats.
- Original description
- Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 17, pt.1 p.254
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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