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the web of life in southern Africa

Family: Glareolidae (coursers and pratincoles)

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Deuterostomia > Chordata > Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates)  > Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class: Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial vertebrates) > Tetrapoda (four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota > Reptilia (reptiles) > Romeriida > Diapsida > Archosauromorpha > Archosauria > Dinosauria (dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) > Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves (birds) > Order: Charadriiformes

Species indigenous to southern Africa

Cursorius rufus (Burchell's courser)

Cursorius temminckii (Temminck's courser) 

Glareola nordmanni (Black-winged pratincole) 

Glareola nuchalis (Rock pratincole) 

Glareola pratincola (Collared pratincole, Red-winged pratincole) 

Rhinoptilus africanus (Double-banded courser) 

Rhinoptilus chalcopterus (Bronze-winged courser)

Rhinoptilus cinctus (Three-banded courser)