Ganga unibande

The ganga unibande ( Pterocles orientalis ) is a Oiseau of intermediate size. The nominal race niche in the Iberian peninsula, the North-West of the Africa, in the islands the Canaries, in Turkey, with Cyprus and in Israel. The Eastern form P.O. arenarius meets with the Kazakhstan, in the West of the China and in the North of the Pakistan. It is a migrating partial, the birds of central Asia going in winter to Pakistan and in the North of the India.

This Gregarious species niche in the dry plains and the similar mediums, but contrary to the Ganga cata it avoids the zones completely deprived of vegetation. Its nest is a depression scraped on the surface of the ground, in which 3 greenish eggs camouflaged by spots are laid. The incubation is ensured by the two parents, but only the male brings back water for chicks.

The ganga unibande measurement from 33 to 39 cm length. The head, the neck and the chest of the male are gray. Its lower parts are black and the higher brown one gilded with darker marks. The bottom of the chest carries a fine black line, and a spot châtaine gorges it. The female has the brown upper parts and more finely marked, and this general coloring extends to the head and the chest. Its lower parts and the pectoral band are as in the male.

The Eastern race is paler and more door that the nominal race, orientalis. The males have the yellower top and the lower part grayer than at the Western form. The females are whiter lower part, but this difference is marked little.

This ganga has a small head resembling that of a Pigeon, but a robust and compact body. Its wings are long and pointed, and its flight is fast and direct. The white lower part of the wings and the black belly return to this species quite visible in vol. the groups go to the points water at dawn.

Its name as a Valencian Catalan is will xurra in the autonomous Community of Valence. Its Spanish name is ortega in continental Spain and ganga in Fuerteventura (the Canaries).

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