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 ash-black eggs in the burnt bushes and grass of the African savannah.

Subspecies

There are three subspecies of Temminck's courser:

C. t. temminckii, : Senegal to Ethiopia, Kenya and northern Tanzania
C. t. ruvanensis, : southern Tanzania to Angola, Mozambique & northeast South Africa
C. t. aridus, : northern Namibia to western Zimbabwe

This bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.