Pallas's sandgrouse 1986

I don't think these birds survived very long and they were very difficult to photograph (my apologies for the poor quality of this photo). Outdoor aviary attached to the old Bird House, Chester, August 1986. Scanned from a Kodachrome slide.

4.1 arrived in 1985 and they bred twice, then the zoo lost the females and were left with 3 males. They eventually returned to Rotterdam in 1989

One of the few bird species I've seen that I could not identify when they were unlabelled.

I remeber them in one of the old avairies in the block round the corner from the owls.