Ardeotis

Ardeotis is a genus of birds in the family Otididae.

Ardeotis
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

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 name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Arabian bustard

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

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

Habitat:

Diet:		  CR 


Australian bustard

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

Habitat:

Diet:		  LC 


Kori bustard

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:

Habitat:

Diet:		  NT 



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.
  • Media related to Ardeotis at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Ardeotis at Wikispecies


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