Bronze-winged Courser

The Bronze-winged Courser is a species of bird in the Glareolidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

The Bronze-winged Courser is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Bronze-winged Courser (Rhinoptilus chalcopterus) is a species of bird in the Glareolidae family. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. More

Distribution of Bronze-winged courser in southern Africa, based on statistical smoothing of the records from first SA Bird Atlas Project (© Animal Demography unit, University of Cape Town; smoothing by Birgit Erni and Francesca Little). Colours range from dark blue (most common) through to yellow (least common). See here for the latest distribution from the SABAP2. Rhinoptilus chalcopterus (Bronze-winged courser) Bronze-winged courser with its chicks, Phabeni Gate area, Kruger Park, South Africa. More

For the purposes of our bird news services, Bronze-winged Courser is classed as ungraded: species which are unlikely to appear as wild birds in Britain or Ireland (Note that rarity levels are currently applied nationally and may not reflect local variations in abundance. More

Leucistc Bronze-winged Courser at Bivane Dam, Vryheid, Zululand = by Duncan McKenzie On a visit to the Bivane Dam 40km east of Vryheid on the 28th December 2006, Linda and I flushed a single, very pale Bronze-winged Courser Rhinoptilus chalcopterus from the track leading to the old Blondin crane site just above the dam wall. More

bronze-winged courser (Rhinoptilus chalcopterus), largest of several species in sub-Saharan Africa, frequents woodlands and is chiefly... Other The following is a selection of items (artistic styles or groups, constructions, events, fictional characters, organizations, publications) associated with "bronze-winged courser" * Rhinoptilus (bird genus) Expand Your Research: Try searching magazines and ebooks for "bronze-winged courser". No results found. More

Bronze-winged Courser Canon 50D 190mm focal length 1/250 sec exposure F7. More

Bronze-winged Courser, Gambia, 30 km east of Soma Decembre 2003 © arnout linckens Send this as a postcard Bronze-winged Courser - Bronze-winged Courser, Gambia, 30 km east of Soma Decembre 2003 © arnout linckens Send this as a postcard Bronze-winged Courser - Bronze-winged Courser, Namibia, Hobatere January 2009 © Ian Merrill Bronze-winged Courser - Bronze-winged Courser, Cameroon, More

page 422 also a picture of the Bronze-winged Courser on page 321. The Bronze-winged Courser belongs to the family of birds classified as Glareolidae. According to the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology the Bronze-winged Courser is also known by these other names: Violet-tipped Courser. The map of the Kruger you see on this page shows the areas (coloured orange) where this bird has been identified. More

Picture of Rhinoptilus chalcopterus above has been licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license.
Original source: Gavin Goodhart
Author: Gavin Goodhart
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Order : Charadriiformes
Family : Glareolidae
Genus : Rhinoptilus
Species : chalcopterus
Authority : (Temminck, 1824)