Ardeotis
Ardeotis | |
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Kori bustard (Ardeotis kori) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Otidiformes |
Family: | Otididae |
Genus: | Ardeotis Le Maout, 1853 |
Type species | |
Otis arabs (Arabian bustard) Linnaeus, 1758 |
Ardeotis is a genus of birds in the family Otididae.
The genus was described in 1853 by the French naturalist Emmanuel Le Maout to accommodate the Arabian bustard.[1]
Species
[edit]It contains the following species:[2]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Arabian bustard | Ardeotis arabs (Linnaeus, 1758) Four subspecies
| Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.[8] It is a vagrant to Kenya, Gambia, northern Ivory Coast and northern Ghana. | Size: Habitat: Diet: | NT
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Great Indian bustard | Ardeotis nigriceps (Vigors, 1831) | India and Pakistan![]() | Size: Habitat: Diet: | CR
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Australian bustard | Ardeotis australis (Gray, JE, 1829) | northern Australia and southern New Guinea | Size: Habitat: Diet: | LC
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Kori bustard | Ardeotis kori (Burchell, 1822) Two subspecies
| Botswana and Namibia, extending into southern Angola and marginally into southwestern Zambia. | Size: Habitat: Diet: | NT
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References
[edit]- ^ Le Maout, Emmanuel (1853). Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : suivant a classification de M. Isidore Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, avec l'indication de leurs moeurs et de leurs rapports avec les arts, le commerce et l'agriculture (in French). Paris: L. Curmer. p. 340.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
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