Bird Images from Southern Africa - Namaqua Sandgrouse Pterocles namaqua (344)

A bird of the Kalahari and dry Karoo, the Namaqua Sandgrouse is threatened by high levels of predation from small mammals, due to the elimination of large raptors and larger predatory mammals across most of it's range.
©Andy Swash 1998Erectile Dysfunction 1998

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