Birds of the World

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Genus: Cursorius (5 species)


Indian Courser (Cursorius coromandelicus) Range: OR: subtropical to tropical dry stony plains of s Asia: nc Pakistan, sub-Himalayan India, far s Nepal and far n Sri Lanka India
Photograph by Steve Riall © All Rights Reserved.


Cream-colored Courser (Cursorius cursor) Range: PAL, AF: subtropical to tropical desert of w Paleotropics: e Canary and Cape Verde is. (c, s Macaronesia, w of w Africa), nw Africa, Middle East from se Turkey to Socotra, Iran and w Turkmenistan to far nw India
Photograph by Crotach on Flickr © All Rights Reserved.


Burchell's Courser (Cursorius rufus) Range: AF: subtropical dry plains of s Africa: sw Angola to s, ne South Africa Namibia
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.


Somali Courser (Cursorius somalensis littoralis) Range: AF: tropical semiarid ne Africa Samburu National Reserve, Kenya
Photograph by Rainbirder (Steve Garvie) Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license identical to this one.


Temminck's Courser (Cursorius temminckii) Male Range: AF: tropical to subtropical savanna of Sub-Saharan Africa: s Mauritania e to Eritrea and w Somalia, s to n South Africa Masai Mara, Kenya
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