Temminck's courser
| Temminck's courser | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Glareolidae |
| Genus: | Cursorius |
| Species: | C. temminckii |
| Binomial name | |
| Cursorius temminckii Swainson, 1822 | |
Temminck's courser, Cursorius temminckii, is a bird in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae. It is a wader which lives in sub-Saharan Africa.
Subspecies
There are three subspecies of Temminck's courser:[2]
- C. t. temminckii, (Swainson, 1822): Senegal to Ethiopia & Kenya
- C. t. ruvanensis, (Madarász, 1915): Tanzania to Angola, Mozambique & northeast South Africa
- C. t. aridus, (Clancey, 1989): northern Namibia to western Zimbabwe
This bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.[3]
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Cursorius temminckii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ "Coursers". International Ornithological Congress. Retrieved 2015-01-08.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 335–336.
- Temminck's courser - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.