Three-banded courser

The three-banded courser (Rhinoptilus cinctus) is a species of bird in the family Glareolidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Three-banded courser
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family:	Glareolidae
Genus:	Rhinoptilus
Species:	R. cinctus
Binomial name
Rhinoptilus cinctus (Heuglin, 1863)

Subspecies

There are five subspecies of three-banded courser:[2]

• R. c. mayaudi, (Érard, Hemery & Pasquet, 1993): Ethiopia & northern Somalia
• R. c. balsaci, (Érard, Hemery & Pasquet, 1993): southern Somalia & northeast Kenya
• R. c. cinctus, (Heuglin, 1863): southeast South Sudan & northwest Kenya
• R. c. emini, (Zedlitz, 1914): southern Kenya, Tanzania & northern Zambia
• R. c. seeboehmi, (Sharpe, 1893): southern Angola & northern Namibia to Zimbabwe & northern South Africa

• 
  R. c. emini, Lake Baringo, Kenya
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  female (left) and male (right)
  Lake Baringo, Kenya
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  R. c. seeboehmi
  Matetsi Safari Area, Zimbabwe
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  Nominate (right) and seeboehmi (left)

References

1. BirdLife International (2012). "Rhinoptilus cinctus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url
2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Sandpipers, snipes, coursers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 June 2019.

External links

• Image at ADW
• Three-banded courser - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.