| Tibetan sandgrouse | |
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| Female Tibetan sandgrouse. Photograph has been taken at Tso Kar, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Pterocliformes |
| Family: | Pteroclidae |
| Genus: | Syrrhaptes |
| Species: | S. tibetanus
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| Binomial name | |
| Syrrhaptes tibetanus Gould, 1850
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The Tibetan sandgrouse (Syrrhaptes tibetanus) is a large bird in the sandgrouse family. The genus name Syrrhaptes is from Ancient Greek surrhaptos, "sewn together" (the feathered toes of this sandgrouse are fused together) and tibetanus is from the type locality, Tibet.[2]
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Syrrhaptes tibetanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22692977A93376741. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22692977A93376741.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 376, 385. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.