Coursers and Pratincoles (Glareolidae)
Double-banded Courser (Smutsornis africanus) - HBW 3, p. 378
French: Courvite à double collier
German: Doppelband-Rennvogel
Spanish: Corredor Escamoso Chico
Other common names: Two-banded Courser
Taxonomy: Cursorius africanus Temminck, 1807, Namaqualand.
Often included in Rhinoptilus, sometimes in Cursorius, but probably merits its own monotypic genus. Alternatively, present species and R. cinctus have been placed in Hemerodromus. Birds from C Tanzania sometimes separated from gracilis as race illustris; race sharpei sometimes considered synonymous with nominate. Eight subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- raffertyi (Mearns, 1915) - E Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.
- hartingi (Sharpe, 1893) - SE Ethiopia (Ogaden) and Somalia.
- gracilis (Fischer & Reichenow, 1884) - Tanzania and Kenya.
- raffertyi (Mearns, 1915) - E Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.
- hartingi (Sharpe, 1893) - SE Ethiopia (Ogaden) and Somalia.
- gracilis (Fischer & Reichenow, 1884) - Tanzania and Kenya.
- bisignatus (Hartlaub, 1865) - SW Angola.
- traylori (Irwin, 1963) - Etosha region of Namibia to Makgadikgadi system of Botswana.
- sharpei (Erlanger, 1905) - C Namibia.
- africanus (Temminck, 1807) - SW & C Kalahari, N Cape Province and S Namibia.
- granti (W. L. Sclater, 1921) - W Cape Province and Karoo.
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A bird on the ground, calling and running away Locality Piper Pans, Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Ghanzi District, Botswana (ssp traylori)
Philip Griffin 4 August 2000 6 years ago 19 sec 4 -
A bird on the ground. Locality Imi, Ethiopia (ssp raffertyi)
Josep del Hoyo 5 December 2005 5 years ago 28 sec 3.9 -
A bird on the ground Locality Etosha National Park, Kunene Region, Namibia (ssp traylori)
Keith Blomerley 13 January 2007 4 years ago 21 sec 3.8 -
A bird walking across bare ground Locality Etosha National Park, Kunene Region, Namibia (ssp traylori)
Keith Blomerley 13 January 2007 4 years ago 15 sec 3.8 -
A bird on the ground, alert Locality Imi, Ethiopia (ssp raffertyi)
Josep del Hoyo 5 December 2005 5 years ago 11 sec 3.2 -
An individual running in bursts Locality Etosha National Park, Kunene Region, Namibia (ssp traylori)
Christian Boix Hinzen 28 February 2003 8 years ago 22 sec 3.1
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Lone bird on mourning light
Locality Etosha National Park, Kunene Region, Namibia (ssp traylori)
auf 19 July 2004 1 year ago 4.4 -
A couple of displaying birds.
Locality Arusha Region, Tanzania
M P Goodey 1 January 2006 29 weeks ago 4.3 -
A bird on a meadow
Locality Witpan, North West Province, South Africa
Tadeusz Stawarczyk 2 April 2011 7 weeks ago 3.8 -
One bird close up
Locality Etosha National Park, Kunene Region, Namibia
Rémi Bigonneau 17 May 2011 12 weeks ago 3.8 -
Close up
Locality Etosha National Park, Kunene Region, Namibia
Rémi Bigonneau 17 May 2009 12 weeks ago 3.8 -
Foraging on a claypan
Locality Etosha National Park, Kunene Region, Namibia
Lindsay Hansch 18 September 2007 43 weeks ago 3.8
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