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DesertScrapeMedium · 138 g
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Cream-coloured coursers are variously cited as 19–21 cm, 21–24 cm, or 24–27 cm long; the wingspan is 51–57 cm. They have long (7–8 cm) legs, long wings, and slightly downcurved bills. The body plumage is sandy in colour, fading to whitish on the lower belly. The outer upperwing and the underwing are black. The crown is grey, grading to blue-grey on the nape, and there is a black eyestripe and a conspicuous white supercilium. The legs are pale grey. Juveniles are mottled dark above, and have a duller head pattern than adults.
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When to see the Cream-colored Courser
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Cream-colored Courser
The map shades 29 countries with regular records, and 9 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Sweden, Netherlands, Kenya, Mali, Sudan, Czechia.
About the Cream-colored Courser
The cream-coloured courser is a species of wader in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae. Both parts of the scientific name derive from Latin cursor, "runner", from currere, "to run" which describes their usual habit as they hunt their insect prey on the ground in dry open semi-desert regions of the Middle East and northern Africa.
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Easily confused with
Temminck's CourserCursorius temminckiiTemminck's courser is a bird in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae.
Indian CourserCursorius coromandelicusThis courser is widespread in South Asia and overlaps with some other species such as the similar looking cream-coloured courser.
Burchell's CourserCursorius rufusBurchell's courser has a graceful figure and an upright posture.
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