Description

formerly widespread in Nile Valley of northern and central Egypt; population greatly reduced (had been considered extinct), but recent records from south central Egypt presumably are this subspecies

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Pteroclidiformes

Family: Pteroclididae

Genus: Pterocles

Species: Pterocles exustus floweri Nicoll, 1921