Bronze-winged Courser

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Bronze-winged Courser
Nominate subspecies (left) and albofasciatus (right)
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Glareolidae
Genus: Rhinoptilus
Species: R. chalcopterus
Binomial name
Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
(Temminck, 1824)

The Bronze-winged Courser or Violet-tipped Courser (Rhinoptilus chalcopterus) is a species of bird in the Glareolidae family. It is found throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

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