Temminck's courser (Cursorius temminckii) is a bird in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae.

It is a wader which lives in sub-Saharan Africa.

It is noted for laying its dark ash-black eggs in the burnt bushes and grass of the African savannah.

[2][3][4] There are three subspecies of Temminck's courser:[5] This bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the Dutch naturalist Coenraad Jacob Temminck.

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