Usage examples (23)

• The pin-tailed sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata) is common on the adjacent plains and visits the river in large numbers to drink.
• A pair of sandgrouse fell to her sling and were roasted on a spit; some pigeon eggs that would never hatch were lightly cracked and put directly in the fire in their shells.
• He looked up, shading his eyes with his hand, and recognized them as 11chtenstein7s sandgrouse, desert birds, like brown pigeons that flocked to water every morning and...
• Other characteristic avifauna are the houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata), Lichensteins sandgrouse (Pterocles lichtensteinii), and chestnut-bellied sandgrouse...