| A flock of yellow-throated sandgrouse glides above wispy fronds of thatching grass, while hyrax scurry into the cracks of granite kopjes, escaping the now searing midday sun. |
| A hungry leopard leaps up from behind a rock and plucks an unlucky sandgrouse out of the air before wolfing it down in one. |
| In the air, the sandgrouse were fast and confusing, speeding through in tight flocks before swirling round to pitch down. |
| Reviews the 250 species of pheasants, partridges, grouse, quails, turkeys, guineafowls, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and plains-wanderers of the world. |
| The male lacks the barred throat and breast pattern of the Lichtenstein's sandgrouse. |
| It has been suggested that columbids are closely related to gamebirds, buttonquails, parrots, shorebirds and sandgrouse. |
