Temminck's courser


Temminck's courser 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 colored ash-black eggs in the burnt bushes and grass of the African savannah.

Subspecies

There are three subspecies of Temminck's courser:
This bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.