sandgrouse in English

noun
1
a seed-eating ground-dwelling bird with brownish plumage, allied to the pigeons and found in the deserts and arid regions of the Old World.
It has been suggested that columbids are closely related to gamebirds, buttonquails, parrots, shorebirds and sandgrouse ( sandgrouse are sometimes included in the order Columbiformes).

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1. Sandgrouse here are their main prey.

2. This is why sandgrouse nest so far from water holes.

3. 60 miles away, in the heart of the desert, sandgrouse chicks are hatching.

4. With sandgrouse it lies in a delicate gradation of one muted tone into another.

5. Again and again, the male sandgrouse risk their lives in order to collect water for their chicks.

6. “The Barbules of sandgrouse belly feathers are also coiled at the base, but much more strongly than those of wader feathers, and the hooked barbicels that give most feathers structural cohesion have been entirely lost