Sandgrouse (Pteroclidae)
Spotted Sandgrouse (Pterocles senegallus) - HBW 4, p. 52
French: Ganga tacheté
German: Tropfenflughuhn
Spanish: Ganga Moteada
Other common names: Northern Spotted/Saharan Sandgrouse
Taxonomy: Tetrao senegallus Linnaeus, 1771, Senegal; error = Algeria.
Birds of India formerly separated as race remotus. Monotypic.
Distribution: S Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauritania through Sahara Desert to Ethiopia and N Somalia, and on through Arabian Peninsula and Iraq to Pakistan and NW India, where occurs in Indian and Thar Deserts.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male walking and looking to the sky Locality Erfoud, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2007 5 years ago 47 sec 4.7 -
A pair sitting on the ground Locality Erfoud, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2007 5 years ago 32 sec 4.6 -
A pair walking on stony ground Locality Erfoud, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2007 5 years ago 44 sec 4.5 -
A pair walking Locality Erfoud, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2007 5 years ago 44 sec 4.4 -
A male and a female resting close together on the steppe Locality Erfoud, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2007 5 years ago 30 sec 4.2 -
Two males and two females walking, then flying away Locality Erfoud, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2007 5 years ago 32 sec 3.9
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A flock standing on the ground
Locality Merzouga, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco (Monotypic species)
Luis Mario Arce 9 April 2013 7 weeks ago 3.8 -
Male and Female
Locality Merzouga, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
Juan Carlos Marín 10 April 2006 4 years ago 3.7 -
Small flock of birds flying out of the Qit-bit (Qatbit) oasis.
Locality Qatbit, Dhofar Governorate, Oman
David Lingard 19 February 2006 1 year ago 3.5 -
A bird standing.
Locality Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation, Al Shahaniah, Al Rayyan, Qatar (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 12 May 2008 4 years ago 3.3 -
A small group of males and females in a rocky area
Locality Missour, Fès-Boulemane Region, Morocco (Monotypic species)
Laurent Demongin 1 May 2006 4 years ago 3.2 -
Birds flying.
Locality Salalah, Dhofar Governorate, Oman
Shah Jahan 16 July 2008 2 years ago 2.7
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