Cream-coloured Courser
Cursorius cursor
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The cream-coloured courser is a species of wader in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae. Both parts of the scientific name derive from Latin cursor, "runner", from currere, "to run" which describes their usual habit as they hunt their insect prey on the ground in dry open semi-desert regions of the Middle East and northern Africa.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Glareolidae
- Genus
- Cursorius