Three-banded courser
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| Species: | R. cinctus
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| Rhinoptilus cinctus (Heuglin, 1863)
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The three-banded courser (Rhinoptilus cinctus) is a species of bird in the Glareolidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Subspecies
There are five subspecies of three-banded courser:[2]
- R. c. mayaudi, (Érard, Hemery & Pasquet, 1993): Ethiopia & northern Somalia
- R. c. balsaci, (Érard, Hemery & Pasquet, 1993): southern Somalia & northeast Kenya
- R. c. cinctus, (Heuglin, 1863): southeast South Sudan & northwest Kenya
- R. c. emini, (Zedlitz, 1914): southern Kenya, Tanzania & northern Zambia
- R. c. seeboehmi, (Sharpe, 1893): southern Angola & northern Namibia to Zimbabwe & northern South Africa
References
- ^ Template:IUCN
- ^ "Coursers". International Ornithological Congress. Retrieved 2015-01-08.
External links
- Image at ADW
- Three-banded courser - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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