Bronze-winged Courser
Rhinoptilus chalcopterus (Temminck, 1824)
Glareolidae — Coursers, Pratincoles
Bronze-winged Courser, Rhinoptilus chalcopterus, is a bird of wooded savanna across Sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal east to eastern Sudan and south to northern South Africa. It belongs to the Glareolidae family within the Charadriiformes. Its most distinctive feature is the bronze-tipped plumage shown in flight. The species was described by Temminck in 1824. It breeds in tropical to subtropical wooded savanna, and its range spans a broad belt across the continent.
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Glareolidae — Coursers, Pratincoles
- Breeding range
- Africa: tropical to subtropical wooded savanna of Sub-Saharan Africa: Senegal e to e Sudan and s to n South Africa
