This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The Jerdon’s courser hails from southern India. They prefer sparse scrub forest with bare patches of ground and tall grass. Due to habitat destruction and loss at the hands of ranching, farming, logging, mining, and quarrying; hunting; trapping; and general human disturbance, these birds are listed as Critically Endangered by […]

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