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title: "Zwartbuikzandhoen"
description: "Pterocles orientalis — Vogels. The black-bellied sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis) is a medium large bird in the sandgrouse family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/black-bellied-sandgrouse
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Zwartbuikzandhoen

> Pterocles orientalis — Vogels. The black-bellied sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis) is a medium large bird in the sandgrouse family.

- Scientific name: *Pterocles orientalis*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `desert` (Woestijn)
- iNaturalist observations: 1182
- Wikidata: [Q383182](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q383182)
- iNaturalist taxon: [117088](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/117088)

## Names

- en: Black-bellied Sandgrouse
- de: Sandflughuhn
- es: Ganga ortega
- fr: Ganga unibande
- nl: Zwartbuikzandhoen
- pt: Cortiçol-de-barriga-preta
- pl: Stepówka czarnobrzucha

## Countries with the most observations

ES (349), KZ (192), PT (148), DZ (90), MA (69), IL (38), RU (37), IR (33), TR (30), UZ (27), CN (23), GE (4)

## Summary

The black-bellied sandgrouse (Pterocles orientalis) is a medium large bird in the sandgrouse family.
The nominate race breeds in Iberian Peninsula , Northwest Africa, the Canary Islands,  Turkey, Iran, Cyprus and Palestine. The eastern form P. o. arenarius (Pallas, 1775) is found in Kazakhstan, western China and northern Pakistan. It is a partial migrant, with central Asian birds moving to Pakistan and northern India in winter.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-bellied_sandgrouse

## Photo

![Zwartbuikzandhoen](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/black-bellied-sandgrouse/medium.jpg)

Photo: Tero Linjama · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/252013317

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/black-bellied-sandgrouse?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).