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Male & Female
Photo by
rafo1Hilf 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
lostinjapanGleb Djiane, Western Sahara, March 2012
[edit] Subspecies
Pterocles coronatus has five subspecies:[1]
- Central Sahara to Mediterranean and Morocco and east to Red Sea
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- Mountains of Oman interior
- Northern Pakistan and adjacent India
[edit] Habitat
Dry and desert areas, often around sewage ponds.
[edit] Behaviour
[edit] References
- 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
- Wikipedia
[edit] External Links