An open-content, electronic journal published by the Animal Demography Unit
at the University of Cape Town

Deformed head of a Burchell's Sandgrouse Pterocles burchelli.

Ursula Franke-Bryson

While sandgrouse are the essence of grace and strength, we caught a strange looking Burchell's Sandgrouse during a ringing session on 1 April 2016 near Witvlei in Namibia. It looked like it had suffered a blow on the head....

       Download: PDF (full text)        |        Downloads: 494       |        Views: 987