Double-banded courser
| Double-banded courser | |
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| In Mountain Zebra National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Glareolidae |
| Genus: | Smutsornis Roberts, 1922 |
| Species: | S. africanus
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| Binomial name | |
| Smutsornis africanus (Temminck, 1807)
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| Synonyms | |
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Rhinoptilus africanus | |
The double-banded courser (Smutsornis africanus), also known as the two-banded courser, is a species of bird in the family Glareolidae. It was formerly placed in the genus Rhinoptilus but is now the only species placed in the genus Smutsornis.