Yellow-throated Sandgrouse e (Pterocles gutturalis)

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Description

The female Yellow-throated Sandgrouse is more cryptically coloured to provide greater camouflaged than her partner for protection when incubating her eggs out in the open.

Photographer: Nick Greaves