Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse

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When to see the Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse

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 Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse

The map shades 14 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Morocco.

About the Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse

Lichtenstein's sandgrouse is a species of sandgrouse in the family Pteroclidae. It is named after the German naturalist Martin Lichtenstein. A small, closely barred bird of stony deserts and arid hills, it ranges across northern and eastern Africa, the Middle East and south-western Asia to Pakistan. It is nomadic and mostly nocturnal, drinking before dawn and after dusk.

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Easily confused with

Spotted SandgrousePterocles senegallusThe spotted sandgrouse reaches a length of about 33 centimetres (13 in). Painted SandgrousePterocles indicusThe painted sandgrouse is a plump ground-dwelling bird with a small head and short legs. Yellow-throated SandgrousePterocles gutturalisThe species has long and pointed wings adapted to fly over long distances.

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