Somali Courser | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Charadriiformes |
Family: | Glareolidae |
Genus: | Cursorius |
Species: | C. somalensis |
Binomial name | |
Cursorius somalensis Shelley, 1885 |
The Somali Courser Cursorius somalensis is a wader in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae.
Although classed as waders, these are birds of dry open country, preferably semi-desert, where they typically hunt their insect prey by running on the ground.
This is a small bird that lives in the eastern Africa, from Eritrea and extreme southeast South Sudan to Somalia and northern Kenya. It feeds off of insects and seeds and lives in open, short grasslands and burnt veld. It grows to eight or nine inches in height.