Sandgrouse
Namaqua Sandgrouse
Pterocles namaqua
The Namaqua Sandgrouse (Pterocles namaqua) is a 177 g desert bird that eats mostly seeds. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Sandgrouse
- Order
- Pterocliformes
- Weight
- 177 g
- Habitat
- Desert
- Diet
- Plants and seeds
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 4
Photo: (c) Shaun Swanepoel, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist