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

| sand grouse n. Any of various pigeonlike birds of the genus Pterocles and related genera, of arid and semiarid regions of the Old World. |
sand grouse
any of 16 species of birds of Asian and African deserts. According to some systems of classification, sandgrouse are ranked with the plovers within the order Charadriiformes.
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