Ardeotis

Ardeotis
Kori bustard (Ardeotis kori)
Scientific classification
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 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	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.