WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY - Double-banded Sandgrouse

These are Double - banded Sandgrouse that we saw in Kruger National Park and further down in the photographs 

you will see how camouflaged they are in one shot before the last.  

Also when you see 2 together, one is a male and a female. 

25–26 cm; 200–270 g 

A small, short-tailed sandgrouse. Male has a diagnostic head pattern, black and white breast bands and barred lower breast and belly. Female and juv. rather uniformly barred; differ from female and juv. Namaqua Sandgrouse by darker, streaked crown, barred (not streaked) lower breast, short, rounded (not pointed) tail and obvious ring of bare, yellow skin around eye.

Voice:

 A whistling ‘chwee-cheechee' and a soft ‘wee-chee-choo-chip-chip' flight call.

Fairly common resident and nomad in woodland (especially mopane), savanna, and locally in arid Karoo grassland.

Drinks at dusk, and often after dark.

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