Temminck's courser
Species of bird
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Temminck's courser (Cursorius temminckii) is a bird in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae. It is a wader which lives in sub-Saharan Africa. It is noted for laying its dark ash-black eggs in the burnt bushes and grass of the African savannah.[2][3][4]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Glareolidae |
| Genus: | Cursorius |
| Species: | C. temminckii |
| Binomial name | |
| Cursorius temminckii Swainson, 1822 | |
Subspecies
There are three subspecies of Temminck's courser:[5]
- C. t. temminckii, (Swainson, 1822): Senegal to Ethiopia, Kenya and northern Tanzania
- C. t. ruvanensis, (Madarász, 1915): southern Tanzania to Angola, Mozambique & northeast South Africa
- C. t. aridus, (Clancey, 1989): northern Namibia to western Zimbabwe
This bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.[6]
