Bronze-winged Courser
Rhinoptilus chalcopterus(Temminck, CJ, 1824)
English (US) Bronze-winged Courser
The Bronze-winged Courser (Rhinoptilus chalcopterus) 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: open woodland of sub-Saharan AfricaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Bronze-winged Courser
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1824)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Cursorius chalcopterus
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ, 1824)
- Type locality
- Senegal.
- Original description
- Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon livr.50, vol.5 pl.298
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
Other species of the family Coursers and Pratincoles
Double-banded Courser
Smutsornis africanus
Jerdon's Courser
Rhinoptilus bitorquatus
Three-banded Courser
Rhinoptilus cinctus
Temminck's Courser
Cursorius temminckii
Indian Courser
Cursorius coromandelicus
Cream-Coloured Courser
Cursorius cursor
Somali Courser
Cursorius somalensis
Burchell's Courser
Cursorius rufus
Madagascar Pratincole
Glareola ocularis
Rock Pratincole
Glareola nuchalis
Australian Pratincole
Glareola isabella
Small Pratincole
Glareola lactea
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