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Genus of birds

Ardeotis
Kori bustard (Ardeotis kori)
Scientific classification Edit this 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.

Species

It contains the following species:

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. 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
Map of range 		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.
Genera of cuckoos, bustards, turacos and their extinct allies
Otidimorphae
Musophagiformes
Musophagidae
Corythaeolinae
Criniferinae
Musophaginae
Otidiformes
Otididae
Cuculiformes
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Tauraco schalowi
Cuculiformes
incertae sedis
Cuculidae
Centropodinae
Couinae
Crotophaginae
Cuculinae
Phaenicophaeini
Cuculini
Neomorphinae
Cuculus canorus
Taxon identifiers
Ardeotis


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