Species profile
Burchell's Sandgrouse
Pterocles burchelli
Quick answer
SE Angola to Namibia, Botswana and n Cape Province
- Scientific name
- Pterocles burchelli
- Family
- Pteroclididae
- Order
- Pteroclidiformes
- Genus
- Pterocles
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Burchell's Sandgrouse in your journal
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Related species in Pteroclididae
- Black-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis)
- Black-faced Sandgrouse (Pterocles decoratus)
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus)
- Double-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles bicinctus)
- Four-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles quadricinctus)
- Ganga couronné (Pterocles coronatus)
- Ganga tacheté (Pterocles senegallus)
- Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse (Pterocles lichtensteinii)