Cream-coloured Courser, Cursorius cursor

Cream-coloured Courser

Cursorius cursor

28 January 2011

Possible regional races (polytypic), extralimital races are greyed out

Cursorius cursor bogolubovi Zarudny 1885
Cursorius cursor cursor (Latham) 1787
Cursorius cursor exsul Hartert 1920

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Cream-coloured Courser, Cursorius cursor bogolubovi

Winter visitor NW India

It is common all over the plains (NW India-Ed.) in the cold weather. It frequents open sandy plains and bare cultivated or uncultivated ground. I believe it migrates, as I have not observed it in this part of the country, during the hot weather, but after about the 20th September it appears all over the country plentifully (EA Butler-1876).

References:
Rasmussen, P.C. & Anderton, J.C. (2005): Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide (2 Volumes), v.1, p.112, v.2, p.184. Published by Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA and Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
Blanford, WT. (1898): The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Birds v.4, p.211. Edited by W.T. Blanford. Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council

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