Cursorius temminckii ruvanensis

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.