Somali Courser
Cursorius somalensis
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The Somali courser is a wader in the pratincole and courser family Glareolidae, native to eastern Africa in Eritrea, eastern Ethiopia, Somalia, extreme southeast South Sudan, and northern and eastern Kenya. It is unusual among waders in being a bird of open dry country, preferably semi-desert, short grasslands, and burnt grass, where it typically hunts its insect prey by running on the ground.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Glareolidae
- Genus
- Cursorius