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pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young

↑painted sandgrouse, ↑Pterocles indicus, ↑pin-tailed sandgrouse, ↑pin-tailed grouse, ↑Pterocles alchata, ↑pallas's sandgrouse, ↑Syrrhaptes paradoxus

any of several birds of the family Pteroclididae inhabiting sandy areas of the Old World, resembling both pigeons and shorebirds and having precocial young. Also, sandgrouse.

[1775-85]

sand grouse noun

Any bird of the genera Pterocles and Syrrhaptes, with long pointed wings, once classified as grouse because of their feathered legs but now considered as a suborder (Pterocletes) related to pigeons

Main Entry: ↑sand

sand grouse,

any bird of a family, similar to a pigeon, found in sandy regions of southern Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa.