Spotted Thick-knee (Burhinus capensis)

Other Names (World)
Spotted Thick-knee, Spotted Dikkop, Cape Thick-knee, Cape Dikkop

Family
Burhinidae (Thick-knees)

Size
43 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Lichtenstein, 1823)

Range (Guide)

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman (B), Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Yemen (B) (NB), Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Gambia, Rwanda.

Unknown to United Arab Emirates.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 46,000 - 160,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (39)...)

Spotted Thick-knee (Burhinus capensis) [XC703456]
by Dawie de Swardt from Fleurdal, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (call)

Spotted Thick-knee (Burhinus capensis) [XC346629]
by Tony Archer from Halali camp, Etosha National Park, Namibia (call)

Subspecies
Several other subspecies proposed: doubtfully distinct are ehrenbergi of Dahlak I in Red Sea, and affinis on Red Sea coast of Ethiopia; also psammochromus included in maculosus, and csongor included in nominate capensis.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

maculosus (Temminck, 1824) - Senegal east to Eritrea and Somalia, and south to Uganda and Kenya.
dodsoni (Ogilvie-Grant, 1899) - Coastal Somalia and southern Arabia.
capensis (Lichtenstein, 1823) - Kenya south to South Africa, and western from Zambia to Angola.
damarensis (Reichenow, 1905) - Namibia, Botswana and south-western South Africa (Cape Province).

References
See References.

Files:

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