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Genus: Pterocles (14 species)


Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata) Range: PAL, AF: sw PAL and n AF Castuera, - , Estremadura, Spain
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Double-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles bicinctus bicinctus) Male and female Range: AF: s Okavango, Botswana
Photograph by Steve Riall © All Rights Reserved.


Burchell's Sandgrouse (Pterocles burchelli) Male Range: AF: s Angola and Namibia through Botswana to Zimbabwe and South Africa Erindi Reserve, Namibia
Photograph by Bruno Conjeaud © All Rights Reserved.


Burchell's Sandgrouse (Pterocles burchelli) Female Range: AF: s Angola and Namibia through Botswana to Zimbabwe and South Africa Botswana
Photograph by Steve Riall © All Rights Reserved.


Crowned Sandgrouse (Pterocles coronatus coronatus) Range: AF, PAL: w AF to Pakistan Erg Chebbi, Morocco
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Black-faced Sandgrouse (Pterocles decoratus) Male Range: AF: e Tsavo East National Park, Coast province, Kenya
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Black-faced Sandgrouse (Pterocles decoratus) Female Range: AF: e Tsavo, Kenya
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Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus olivascens) Male Range: AF, PAL, OR: w AF to India Coast, Kenya
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Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus) Female Range: AF, PAL, OR: w AF to India Coast, Kenya
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Yellow-throated Sandgrouse (Pterocles gutturalis gutturalis) Range: AF: e, sc Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
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Painted Sandgrouse (Pterocles indicus) Male Range: OR: India India
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Painted Sandgrouse (Pterocles indicus) Female Range: OR: India India
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Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse (Pterocles lichtensteinii sukensis) Male Range: AF, PAL: nw AF to Pakistan Shaba NR, Kenya
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Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse (Pterocles lichtensteinii sukensis) Female Range: AF, PAL: nw AF to Pakistan Samburu National Park, Kenya
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Crepuscular/nocturnal.


Namaqua Sandgrouse (Pterocles namaqua) Range: AF: Angola, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa Namibia
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Black-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis orientalis) Range: PAL: sw, also n AF Saudi Arabia
Photograph by Ammadoux © All Rights Reserved.


Madagascar Sandgrouse (Pterocles personatus) Male Range: AF: w, s Madagascar Berenty, Toliara, Madagascar
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Four-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles quadricinctus) Female Range: AF: Senegal and Gambia to Eritrea, Ethiopia and w Kenya The Gambia
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Spotted Sandgrouse (Pterocles senegallus) Range: AF, PAL: nw AF to nw India Tunisia
Photograph by Stephen G. Davis © All Rights Reserved.

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