Sandgrouse
Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
Pterocles gutturalis
The Yellow-throated Sandgrouse (Pterocles gutturalis) is a 338 g grassland bird that eats mostly seeds. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Sandgrouse
- Order
- Pterocliformes
- Weight
- 338 g
- Habitat
- Grassland
- Diet
- Plants and seeds
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 8
Recorded in Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Namibia.
Where to see it: Serengeti NP (Tanzania); Ngorongoro Conservation Area · Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania); Tarangire NP (Tanzania); Maasai Mara NR · Mara Triangle (Kenya); Amboseli NP (Kenya).
Photo: (c) Stefan Haag, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist