Ardeotis

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Ardeotis
Ardeotis kori Etosha.JPG
Kori bustard (Ardeotis kori)
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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

It contains the following species: [2]

Genus Ardeotis Le Maout, 1853 – four species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Arabian bustard

Arabian Bustard.jpg

Ardeotis arabs
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Four subspecies
  • A. a. lynesi(Bannerman 1930) (Moroccan bustard)
  • A. a. stieberi(Neumann 1907) (great Arabian bustard)
  • A. a. arabs(Linnaeus 1758)
  • A. a. butleri(Bannerman 1930) (Sudan bustard)
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 


Great Indian bustard

Great Indian Bustard from DNP (cropped).jpg

Ardeotis nigriceps
(Vigors, 1831)
India and Pakistan
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Size:

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Diet:
 CR 


Australian bustard

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Ardeotis australis
(Gray, JE, 1829)
northern Australia and southern New GuineaSize:

Habitat:

Diet:
 LC 


Kori bustard

Ardeotis kori -Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania-8.jpg

Ardeotis kori
(Burchell, 1822)

Two subspecies
  • A. k. struthiunculus(Neumann 1907) (Northern Kori bustard)
  • A. k. kori(Burchell 1822) (Southern Kori bustard)
Botswana and Namibia, extending into southern Angola and marginally into southwestern Zambia.Size:

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 NT 



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References

  1. 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.
  2. 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.