© GW- monacoeye • Gambia, Mar 2013.

Bird name: Four Banded Sandgrouse
Latin: Pterocles quadricinctus
Other: Ganga quadribande (Fr), vierbandzandhoen (Nl)
Family: Pteroclididae • Sandgrouse
Range: Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Cameroon to Sudan, Uganda.
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The four-banded Sandgrouse is a really superb-looking bird. Seen on MacCarthy Island upriver.More photos...

© André S - monacoeye • Serengeti, Oct 2009. Female Yellow-throated Sandgrouse.

Bird name: Yellow Throated Sandgrouse
Latin: Pterocles gutturalis
Other: Ganga à gorge jaune (Fr), cortiçol-de-garganta-amarela (Pt), geelkeelzandhoen (Nl)
Family: Pteroclididae • Sandgrouse
Range: Angola, Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, S Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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The Yellow-throated Sandgrouse lives in sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of 16 species of Sandgrouse which now have their own order Pteroclidiformes - previously they were with Pigeons in Columbiformes.

Glad to have these photos of the first Sandgrouse on the site, sent in by André and Tom.

The general distribution of the other members of the Sandgrouse family is Africa and Asia, with two species in southern Spain, one of which, as mentioned, sometimes ventures into France.

These Yellow-throated Sandgrouse were seen in the Serengeti in Tanzania. The female is pictured above and has strongly contrasting feathers and facial stripe. The male, below left, has a dark neck stripe and facial stripe.

Below, Tom C, male Yellow-throated Sandgrouse, Tanzania.

© Tom C - monacoeye • Tanzania, July.

Bird name: Chestnut Bellied Sandgrouse
Latin: Pterocles exustus
Other: Ganga à ventre brun (Fr), roodbuikzandhoen (Nl)
Family: Pteroclididae • Sandgrouse
Range: C & N Africa, S Asia.
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The Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse carries water on its back to its young.

069 Pteroclididae • Sandgrouse - IOC 2.5 - 2010

Syrrhaptes tibetanus - Tibetan Sandgrouse - SC Eurasia
Syrrhaptes paradoxus - Pallas's Sandgrouse - C Eurasia

Pterocles alchata - Pin-tailed Sandgrouse - SW, Eurasia, also N Africa
Pterocles namaqua - Namaqua Sandgrouse - S Africa
Pterocles exustus - Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse - W Africa to India
Pterocles senegallus - Spotted Sandgrouse - NW Africa to NW India
Pterocles orientalis - Black-bellied Sandgrouse - SW, Eurasia, also N Africa
Pterocles gutturalis - Yellow-throated Sandgrouse - E, SC Africa
Pterocles coronatus - Crowned Sandgrouse - W Africa to Pakistan
Pterocles decoratus - Black-faced Sandgrouse - E Africa
Pterocles personatus - Madagascar Sandgrouse - Madagascar
Pterocles lichtensteinii - Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse - NW Africa to Pakistan
Pterocles indicus - Painted Sandgrouse - India
Pterocles quadricinctus - Four-banded Sandgrouse - E, C, W Africa
Pterocles bicinctus - Double-banded Sandgrouse - S Africa
Pterocles burchelli - Burchell's Sandgrouse - S Africa