Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse

Pterocles exustus - Ganga à ventre brun

Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Pterocliformes

  • Family
    :

    Pteroclidés

  • Genus
    :

    Pterocles

  • Species
    :

    exustus

Descriptor

Temminck, 1825

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 33 cm
  • Wingspan
    : 48 à 51 cm.
  • Weight
    : 140 à 241 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Ganga à ventre brun
♂ adult
Ganga à ventre brun
♀ adult

Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus) is a species of bird in the Pteroclidae family.

Subspecific information 6 subspecies

  • Pterocles exustus exustus (Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia to c Sudan)
  • Pterocles exustus floweri (Egypt)
  • Pterocles exustus ellioti (se Sudan, Eritrea, n Ethiopia, Somalia)
  • Pterocles exustus olivascens (sw Ethiopia, Kenya, n Tanzania)
  • Pterocles exustus erlangeri (w and s Arabian Pen.)
  • Pterocles exustus hindustan (se Iran, Pakistan, India)

Foreign names

  • Ganga à ventre brun,
  • Ganga moruna,
  • ganga-castanha,
  • Braunbauch-Flughuhn,
  • barnahasú pusztaityúk,
  • Roodbuikzandhoen,
  • Grandule ventrecastano,
  • brunbukig flyghöna,
  • Brunbuksandhøne,
  • stepiar tmavobruchý,
  • stepokur hnědobřichý,
  • Brunbuget Sandhøne,
  • savannihietakyyhky,
  • ganga de ventre bru,
  • Brúnspjátra,
  • stepówka brunatnobrzucha,
  • brūnvēdera smilšvistiņa,
  • kostanjeva stepska kokoška,
  • Рыжебрюхий рябок,
  • チャバラサケイ,
  • 栗腹沙鸡,
  • 栗腹沙雞,

Voice song and cries

Ganga à ventre brun
♀ adult

Habitat

Ganga à ventre brun
♂ adult

Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation ; Grassland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Desert : Hot ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Sources of information

Other sources of interest

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published: - Updated: 08-10-2007
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