Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse

Pterocles exustus - Ganga à ventre brun

Systematics

Order
:
Pterocliformes
Family
:
Pteroclidés
Genus
:
Pterocles
Species
:
exustus

Descriptor

Temminck, 1825

Biometrics

Size
: 33 cm
Wingspan
: 48 à 51 cm.
Weight
: 140 à 241 g

Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus) is a species of bird in the Pteroclidae family.

Subspecific information 6 subspecies

Pterocles exustus exustus (Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia to c Sudan)
Pterocles exustus floweri (Egypt)
Pterocles exustus ellioti (se Sudan, Eritrea, n Ethiopia, Somalia)
Pterocles exustus olivascens (sw Ethiopia, Kenya, n Tanzania)
Pterocles exustus erlangeri (w and s Arabian Pen.)
Pterocles exustus hindustan (se Iran, Pakistan, India)

Foreign names

Ganga à ventre brun,
Ganga moruna,
ganga-castanha,
Braunbauch-Flughuhn,
barnahasú pusztaityúk,
Roodbuikzandhoen,
Grandule ventrecastano,
brunbukig flyghöna,
Brunbuksandhøne,
stepiar tmavobruchý,
stepokur hnědobřichý,
Brunbuget Sandhøne,
savannihietakyyhky,
ganga de ventre bru,
Brúnspjátra,
stepówka brunatnobrzucha,
brūnvēdera smilšvistiņa,
kostanjeva stepska kokoška,
Рыжебрюхий рябок,
チャバラサケイ,
栗腹沙鸡,
栗腹沙雞,

Voice song and cries

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Habitat

Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation ; Grassland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Desert : Hot ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status

Extinct

Threatened

Least
concern

Extinc
in the Wild

Near
threatened

Not
evaluated

EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Illustration

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Sources of information

IOC World Bird List (v14.1), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2024-04-18.

Other sources of interest