Yellow-throated sandgrouse

Yellow-throated sandgrouse
Male at Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Pterocliformes
Family:Pteroclidae
Genus:Pterocles
Species: P. gutturalis
Binomial name
Pterocles gutturalis
Smith, 1836
Illustration from Horsbrugh, Boyd (1912)

The yellow-throated sandgrouse (Pterocles gutturalis) is a species of bird in the family Pteroclididae.

Range

It is found in Angola, Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Subspecies

There are two accepted subspecies:[2]

  • P. g. subsp. saturatior E.J.O.Hartert, 1900 – Ethiopia to northern Zambia
  • P. g. subsp. gutturalis A. Smith, 1836 – southern Zambia and Angola to northern South Africa

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Pterocles gutturalis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ↑ de Juana, E.; Boesman, P. "Yellow-throated Sandgrouse (Pterocles gutturalis)". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Retrieved 6 March 2017.


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