Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse

Taxonomy

Order

Pterocliformes

Family

Pteroclidae

Genus

Pterocles

eBird Code

chbsan

Subspecies (6)

• Pterocles exustus ellioti

  eastern Sudan, Eritrea, northern Ethiopia, and northern and central Somalia

• Pterocles exustus erlangeri

  western and southern Arabian Peninsula

• Pterocles exustus exustus

  Mauritania and Senegambia eastward to Sudan

• Pterocles exustus floweri

  formerly widespread in Nile Valley of northern and central Egypt; population greatly reduced (had been considered extinct), but recent records from south-central Egypt presumably are this subspecies

• Pterocles exustus hindustan

  southeastern Iran to Pakistan and India

• Pterocles exustus olivascens

  southeastern South Sudan, southern Ethiopia, southwestern Somalia, Kenya, and northern Tanzania