Birds include falcons (which are caught and trained for hunting), eagles, hawks, vultures, sand grouse and bulbuls.

There were four of them, two brace of sand grouse and they were flighting in that peculiar quick-winged slant that made their intention unmistakable.

Sean whistled like a sand grouse, checking the pace.

"Like shooting sand grouse with the577 bandukil" he cried in Swahili, then leaped to his feet to follow Sean over the Parapet.

Birds include peafowl, grey partridge, bush quail, sand grouse, tree pie, golden-backed woodpecker, crested serpent eagle and the Great Indian Horned Owl.

One of our favorite sand bars is visited every morning at around 8:30 as regularly as clockwork by Burchell's sand grouse.

Right on schedule, the first flocks of sand grouse come in high and circle the bar warily.

There are several varieties of the sand grouse.

This being the principal watering-place along the deserted bed of the Atbara, the neighbourhood literally swarmed with doves, sand grouse, and other birds, in addition to many geese and pelicans.

Overseas bird dogs are used to hunt quail, willow grouse, sand grouse, guinea fowl, sagehen, francolin.