Yellow-throated sandgrouse

Yellow-throated sandgrouse
Male at Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Pteroclidiformes
Family: Pteroclididae
Genus: Pterocles
Species: P. gutturalis
Binomial name
Pterocles gutturalis
Smith, 1836
Illustration from Horsbrugh, Boyd (1912)

The yellow-throated sandgrouse (Pterocles gutturalis) is a species of bird in the Pteroclididae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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