Somali courser [SEP] parent taxon
Somali courser
The Somali courser ("Cursorius somalensis") is a wader in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae.
Although classed as waders, these are birds of dry open country, preferably semi-desert, where they typically hunt their insect prey by running on the ground.
This is a small bird that lives in the eastern Africa:
"C. s. somaliensis" in Eritrea, eastern Ethiopia and northern Somalia and "C. s. littoralis" in extreme southeast South Sudan, northern and eastern Kenya,
-billed sandpiper
- Broad-billed sandpiper
- Buff-breasted sandpiper
- Ruff
- Wilson's phalarope
- Red-necked phalarope
- Red phalarope
Charadriiformes (buttonquail, waders, gulls, alcids, and allies) Glareolidae (coursers and pratincoles).
- Cream-coloured courser
- Somali courser
- Burchell's courser
- Temminck's courser
- Indian courser
- Double-banded courser
- Three-banded courser
- Bronze-winged courser
- Jerdon's courser