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Male & Female
Photo by rafo1
Hilf sewage plant run-off, Masirah island, Oman, September 209

Pterocles coronatus

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Africa, Middle East and Asia
Northern Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt
Western Africa: Mauritania, Niger, Chad
Eastern Africa: Sudan
Middle East: Israel, Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Iraq, Iran
Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Western Himalayas

[edit] Taxonomy

Photo by lostinjapan
Gleb Djiane, Western Sahara, March 2012

[edit] Subspecies

Pterocles coronatus has five subspecies:^[1]

• P. c. coronatus

• Central Sahara to Mediterranean and Morocco and east to Red Sea

• P. c. vastitas

• Sinai Peninsula and deserts of southern Israel and Jordan

• P. c. atratus

• Southern Arabia, Iraq and southern Iran to western Pakistan and Afghanistan

• P. c. saturatus

• Mountains of Oman interior

• P. c. ladas

• Northern Pakistan and adjacent India

[edit] Habitat

Dry and desert areas, often around sewage ponds.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Wikipedia

• List of references

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