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Photo by Jugal Tiwari
Banni, Kutch, Gujarat, India, July, 2008

Pterocles exustus

[edit] Identification

• Buffy beige
• Barred, elongated central tail feathers

[edit] Distribution

Central and northern Africa and southern Asia.

Photo by atomicmak
Thol, Mehsana, Gujarat, India, April 2009

Hawaii (Introduced)

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies

Pterocles exustus has six subspecies:^[1]

• P. e. exustus

• Mauritania and Senegambia and east to Sudan

• P. e. floweri

• Extinct (Egypt)

• P. e. ellioti

• South-eastern Sudan to Eritrea, northern Ethiopia and Somalia

• P. e. olivascens

• Southern Ethiopia to Somalia, Kenya and northern Tanzania

• P. e. erlangeri

• Western and southern Arabian Peninsula

• P. e. hindustan

• South-eastern Iran to Pakistan and India

[edit] Habitat

Arid, bushy areas, rocky open landscape.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes seeds, grasses, mustard leaves and herbs. They are heavily dependent on water.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
2. Wikipedia

• List of references

[edit] External Links