| Temminck's courser | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Glareolidae |
| Genus: | Cursorius |
| Species: | C. temminckii |
| Binomial name | |
| Cursorius temminckii Swainson, 1822 | |
Temminck's courser (Cursorius temminckii) is a bird in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae. It is a wader which lives in sub-Saharan Africa. It is noted for laying its dark ash-black eggs in the burnt bushes and grass of the African savannah.
Subspecies
There are three subspecies of Temminck's courser:
- C. t. temminckii, (Swainson, 1822): Senegal to Ethiopia, Kenya and northern Tanzania
- C. t. ruvanensis, (Madarász, 1915): southern Tanzania to Angola, Mozambique & northeast South Africa
- C. t. aridus, (Clancey, 1989): northern Namibia to western Zimbabwe
This bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.
References
- BirdLife International (2016). "Cursorius temminckii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22694120A93439599. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22694120A93439599.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- Johann Georg Goldammer; Cornelis De Ronde (2004). Wildland Fire Management Handbook for Sub-Sahara Africa. African Minds. pp. 82–. ISBN 978-1-919833-65-1.
- Frost, P. G. H. (1984). "The Responses and Survival of Organisms in Fire-Prone Environments". Ecological Effects of Fire in South African Ecosystems. Ecological Studies. Vol. 48. pp. 273–309. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-69805-7_13. ISBN 978-3-642-69807-1. ISSN 0070-8356.
- Engelbrecht, G.D. (2001). "First record of the fledging period of Temminck's Courser,Cursorius temminckii". Ostrich. 72 (1–2): 117–118. Bibcode:2001Ostri..72..117E. doi:10.2989/00306520109485296. ISSN 0030-6525. S2CID 88119355.
- Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Sandpipers, snipes, coursers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 335–336.
- Temminck's courser - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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