Double-banded Courser

Double-banded Courser
Double-banded Courser
In Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Glareolidae
Genus: Rhinoptilus
Species: R. africanus
Binomial name
Rhinoptilus africanus
(Temminck, 1807)

The Double-banded Courser (Rhinoptilus africanus) is a species of bird in the Glareolidae family.

It is sometimes classified as the sole member of the genus Smutsornis as Smutsornis africanus.

R. a. hartingi

It is found in Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.

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