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Hartlaub's Spurfowl (Pternistis hartlaubi)

Hartlaub's Spurfowl
Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Hartlaub's Spurfowl

Hartlaub's spurfowl or Hartlaub's francolin (Pternistis hartlaubi) is a species of bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It is endemic to the escarpment zone of Namibia and Angola. The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the German physician and ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub.

Source: Hartlaub's spurfowl on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 12 recordings for this species: 9 CC BY-NC-ND · 3 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Namibia in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Related species you can hear

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