Temminck's courser

Temminck's courser (Cursorius temminckii) is a bird in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae. It is a wader which lives in sub-Saharan Africa. It is noted for laying its dark ash-black eggs in the burnt bushes and grass of the African savannah.

Subspecies
There are three subspecies of Temminck's courser:


 * C. t. temminckii, (Swainson, 1822) : Senegal to Ethiopia, Kenya and northern Tanzania
 * C. t. ruvanensis, (Madarász, 1915) : southern Tanzania to Angola, Mozambique & northeast South Africa
 * C. t. aridus, (Clancey, 1989) : northern Namibia to western Zimbabwe

This bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.