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Black-bellied sandgrouse
Species of bird / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The black-bellied sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis) is a medium large bird in the sandgrouse family.
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Pterocliformes |
Family: | Pteroclidae |
Genus: | Pterocles |
Species: | P. orientalis |
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Pterocles orientalis | |
Synonyms | |
Tetrao orientalis Linnaeus, 1758 |
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The nominate race breeds in Iberian Peninsula , Northwest Africa, the Canary Islands, Turkey, Iran, Cyprus and Israel. The eastern form P. o. arenarius (Pallas, 1775) is found in Kazakhstan, western China and northern Pakistan. It is a partial migrant, with central Asian birds moving to the Pakistan and northern India in winter.