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The painted sandgrouse is a plump ground-dwelling bird with a small head and short legs. The sexes are differently coloured. In the male, the bill is orange and there is a black bar across the white forehead, fine black longitudinal lines on the nape and a white patch of bare skin surrounding the eye. There is a broad black and white band around the chest. The breast and belly are a uniform pinkish-brown colour and the back, wings and tail are brown, boldly marked in black and white transverse bars.
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When to see the Painted Sandgrouse
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Painted Sandgrouse
The map shades 1 country 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 Pakistan.
About the Painted Sandgrouse
The painted sandgrouse is a medium large bird in the sandgrouse family Pteroclidae found in India and Pakistan.
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Easily confused with
Yellow-throated SandgrousePterocles gutturalisThe species has long and pointed wings adapted to fly over long distances.
Lichtenstein's SandgrousePterocles lichtensteiniiLichtenstein's sandgrouse is a small, stocky sandgrouse about 25 cm (9.8 in) long and weighing 175–250 g (6.2–8.8 oz).
Spotted SandgrousePterocles senegallusThe spotted sandgrouse reaches a length of about 33 centimetres (13 in).
Side by side: Painted Sandgrouse vs Spotted Sandgrouse · Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse vs Painted Sandgrouse · Painted Sandgrouse vs Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
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