The most immediate examples of that are in direct species offtake, such as the trophy hunting of sandgrouse in Kenya. |
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Also called a hemipode, it resembles a true quail in appearance and way of life but is more closely related to sandgrouse and pigeons. |
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Little is known about sandgrouse despite the group having a broad geographical range. |
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The male lacks the barred throat and breast pattern of the Lichtenstein's sandgrouse. |
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It has been suggested that columbids are closely related to gamebirds, buttonquails, parrots, shorebirds and sandgrouse. |
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Reviews the 250 species of pheasants, partridges, grouse, quails, turkeys, guineafowls, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and plains-wanderers of the world. |
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In addition, there are other male-incubating species such as buttonquail, mesites, sandgrouse, and shorebirds that have neither helpers nor communal cooperation. |
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A hungry leopard leaps up from behind a rock and plucks an unlucky sandgrouse out of the air before wolfing it down in one. |
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In the air, the sandgrouse were fast and confusing, speeding through in tight flocks before swirling round to pitch down. |
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In addition to raptors, the ground-running residential sandgrouse occurs in both Middle and Upper phases, with one Middle phase specimen identified as Pallas' sandgrouse. |
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