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Male © Rogério Rodrigues eBird S51561629 Macaulay Library ML 137100741
Female © Charley Hesse
Male © Peter Kaestner
Female © Allen Lewis
Male and female © Stephen Gast
+ 2
In flight © Dave Curtis

Burchell's Sandgrouse Pterocles burchelli

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A plump, small-headed, pigeon-like bird. Mostly chestnut-cinnamon speckled with white; the male has a gray face and yellow spectacles, and the female has a yellowish face. It prefers foraging on the ground for seeds in semi-arid woodland on red Kalahari sands, where it can be inconspicuous. Gathers in large groups at drinking sites in the morning. The soft “chuup-chuup chop-chop” call is diagnostic.

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