Temminck's courser

Temminck's courser
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
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. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Subspecies

There are three subspecies of Temminck's courser: ^[5]

• 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. ^[6]

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Sandpipers, snipes, coursers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
6. 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.