Species profile
Painted Sandgrouse
Pterocles indicus
Quick answer
Arid rocky lowlands of e Pakistan and peninsular India
- Scientific name
- Pterocles indicus
- Family
- Pteroclididae
- Order
- Pteroclidiformes
- Genus
- Pterocles
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Painted Sandgrouse in your journal
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Related species in Pteroclididae
- Black-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis)
- Black-faced Sandgrouse (Pterocles decoratus)
- Burchell's Sandgrouse (Pterocles burchelli)
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus)
- Double-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles bicinctus)
- Four-banded Sandgrouse (Pterocles quadricinctus)
- Ganga couronné (Pterocles coronatus)
- Ganga tacheté (Pterocles senegallus)