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Bronze-winged Courser
The bronze-winged courser or violet-tipped courser (Rhinoptilus chalcopterus) is a species of bird in the family Glareolidae. It is found throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Large courser with dark brown upperparts and a white belly. In flight, shows a dark upperwing and a black-and-white underwing. Found in savannah and woodland, including miombo and Guinea savanna. A nocturnal species, it spends the day roosting under a thick bush. Calls at night with a haunting, slurred “chee-yaaaa-oo.” This is the courser that is most similar to a lapwing, but its shape is different: taller and with longer legs, and the details of the head and breast pattern don’t match those of any lapwing.
In Kenya an uncommun nocturnal courser of open bush and woodland. Mainaly a non-breeding migrant from the s. tropics, May-Nov. Local in ne. Tanzania and se. Kenya north to Malindi and Meru NP.
Sources : Wikipedia / ebird / Helm Field Guide
