#1226 · 🐦 birds
Cream-coloured Courser
🇳🇱 Renvogel ·Cursorius cursor
📍 Isère, Rhône-Alpes, FR
📍 38260 Gillonnay, France
📍 Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES
📍 Aeropuerto de Melilla, Melilla, ML, ES
📍 Tombouctou, Mali
📍 Алатский район, Узбекистан
📍 Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Tarique Sani · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Gökçe Coşkun · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Clément panisse · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Isère, Rhône-Alpes, FR:© Aurelie Laurent · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. 38260 Gillonnay, France:© pygmaeus · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES:© djkelly · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Aeropuerto de Melilla, Melilla, ML, ES:© Alicia Castillo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Tombouctou, Mali:© David Bishop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Алатский район, Узбекистан:© wild_nn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Las Palmas, ES-CN, ES:© beebirdy · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The cream-coloured courser ( Cursorius cursor ) is a wader in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae. Both parts of the scientific name derive from Latin cursor , "runner", from currere , "to run".
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 831 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 129 g.
- Scientifically named by John Latham in 1787 (239 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Cream-coloured Courser
- Nederlands
- Renvogel
- scientific name
- Cursorius cursor
- class
- Aves
- order
- Charadriiformes
- family
- Glareolidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 45
- sightings worldwide
- 831
- GBIF records in NL
- 404
- weight
- 129 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1787 by John Latham
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Glareolidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 4595, Wikidata Q219199, GBIF 2480740, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.