Pteroclididae

Pterocles alchata (Linnaeus, 1766)

Pterocles alchata, the pin-tailed sandgrouse, is a medium-sized open-dry-habitat bird found across North Africa, the Middle East and southern Europe.

Pterocles bicinctus Temminck, 1815

The double-banded sandgrouse is a moderately-sized African bird found in open, sparsely vegetated habitats across southern Africa.

Pterocles burchelli W.L.Sclater, 1922

Burchell's sandgrouse is a desert-adapted bird found across southern Africa that carries water in belly feathers to feed its chicks.

Pterocles coronatus Lichtenstein, 1823

Pterocles coronatus, the crowned sandgrouse, is a small desert-dwelling bird found from North Africa through the Middle East to Pakistan.

Pterocles decoratus Cabanis, 1868

Pterocles decoratus, the black-faced sandgrouse, is a medium-sized East African dry-habitat bird with distinct plumage differences between sexes.

Pterocles exustus Temminck, 1825

Pterocles exustus, the chestnut-bellied sandgrouse, is a six-subspecies arid-zone bird found across Africa and western/southern Asia.

Pterocles gutturalis A.Smith, 1836

Pterocles gutturalis, the yellow-throated sandgrouse, is an arid-corridor adapted bird with distinct plumage differences between sexes and subspecies.

Pterocles indicus (Gmelin, 1789)

Pterocles indicus, the painted sandgrouse, is a plump ground bird with distinctly different coloration between sexes.

Pterocles lichtensteinii Temminck, 1825

Lichtenstein's sandgrouse is a mostly nocturnal nomadic bird in the Pteroclidae family found across parts of Africa and Asia.

Pterocles namaqua (Gmelin, 1789)

Pterocles namaqua, the Namaqua sandgrouse, is a medium-sized arid-dwelling bird native to southern Africa.

Pterocles orientalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pterocles orientalis, the black-bellied sandgrouse, is a large gregarious sandgrouse that breeds in dry open plains.

Pterocles quadricinctus Temminck, 1815

Pterocles quadricinctus (four-banded sandgrouse) is a 25–28 cm African bird found in savannas and scrublands from Mauritania to Uganda.

Pterocles senegallus (Linnaeus, 1771)

Pterocles senegallus, the spotted sandgrouse, is a North African and Middle Eastern arid-land bird listed as least concern by the IUCN.

Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pallas, 1773)

Pallas's sandgrouse (Syrrhaptes paradoxus) is a distinctive steppe bird native to central Asia that occasionally vagrates to western Europe.