Coursers and Pratincoles (Glareolidae)
Temminck's Courser (Cursorius temminckii) - HBW 3, p. 378
French: Courvite de Temminck
German: Temminckrennvogel
Spanish: Corredor Etiópico
Taxonomy: Cursorius Temminckii Swainson, 1822, Senegal.
Forms superspecies with C. cursor, C. rufus and C. coromandelicus, although present species partly allopatric with the first two taxa, which may therefore represent a separate superspecies. Occasionally treated as a race of C. coromandelicus. Possible races damarensis from SW of range and ruvanensis from E of range poorly defined and not usually recognized, though slight differences in upperpart coloration and apparently different migration strategies may indicate their validity. Monotypic.
Distribution: Savannas of sub-Saharan Africa from S Mauritania and Senegal to Nigeria, discontinuously across Sahel to Ethiopia, and S through C Africa to N South Africa.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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one bird walking and finaly flying away Locality Janjanbureh (Georgetown), Central River Division, The Gambia (Monotypic species)
Daniêl Jimenez 27 December 2011 3 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 57 sec 3.6 -
A bird ruffling its feathers then walking away Locality Etosha National Park, Kunene Region, Namibia (Monotypic species)
Keith Blomerley 14 January 2007 4 years ago 17 sec 3.3 -
A bird running through grass Locality Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya (Monotypic species)
Brooke Clibbon 19 December 2002 5 years ago 6 sec 3 -
one disturbed from its roost whilst spotlighting Locality Ngaoundaba Ranch, Ngaoundéré, Adamawa Province, Cameroon (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 16 March 2009 2 years ago 2 sec 2.5
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A closeup
Locality Blackbrook Zoological Park, Winkhill, Staffordshire, England, Great Britain (Monotypic species)
Jonathan Beilby 31 December 2008 3 years ago 3 -
A bird on the ground seen from behin
Locality Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe (Monotypic species)
Laurent Demongin 24 September 2004 3 years ago 2.7
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