In fact no other sandgrouse with any black on belly at all has a short tail.

The sandgrouse strategy is to have one bird flying high overhead.

Syrrhaptes is a genus of birds in the sandgrouse family.

Most sandgrouse are liable to flock with other species.

This sandgrouse has a small, pigeon like head and neck, but sturdy compact body.

The sandgrouse is a medium-sized bird with a plump body, small head and short legs.

They are smaller-headed than other sandgrouse, but have sturdy compact bodies.

They resemble grouse, quail and sandgrouse, only with long wings.

Outside the breeding season, the sandgrouse are gregarious.

Female is only completely uniformly barred sandgrouse, lacking any distinctive markings.

Less gregarious than other sandgrouse, frequenting rocky and bushy desert areas.

Burchell's Sandgrouse is a plump bird about the size of a pigeon with a small head and short legs.

The sandgrouse are placed in a separate order because the precise relationships between Pteroclididae and other bird families is unclear.

The Spotted Sandgrouse has a rapid wing beat and flies swiftly.

The smallest sandgrouse of the region, looking rather dark from its close barring, and one of the shorter-tailed group.

D Map Sandgrouse Market slightly further east, is the place for interesting food, much of it sold live.

This may depend on local availability but in other cases it reflects actual selection of favoured seeds over others by the sandgrouse.

It was named after the egg of the Crowned Sandgrouse (common to the area) due to it's similar shape.

The Double-banded Sandgrouse is most often seen in groups of one to five birds, often two or four.

Some desert birds depend on water sources and sandgrouse are particularly well known for their daily congregations at waterholes.

These birds are gregarious like other sandgrouse.

Due to their primarily dry diet of seeds, the sandgrouse needs to drink a large volume of water.

Nesting sandgrouse carry water to their young by wetting their belly feathers.

The sandgrouse tend to avoid sites with cover for mammalian predators and their greatest risk is usually from predatory birds.

Its call is a musical "queeto-queeto" which distinguishes it from other species of sandgrouse with similar plumage.