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[HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
10/05/2024 09:33:28 AM
Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)]
LC
Black-bellied Bustard*
Id (Atlas):
Lissotis melanogaster
Description (10 )
Black-bellied Bustard
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Other Names (World)
Black-bellied Bustard, Black-bellied Korhaan
Family
Otididae (Bustards)
Size
60 cm
First Described (Guide )
(Rüppell, 1835)
Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland, temperate grassland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,500 m.
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Côte dIvoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Vagrant to Mauritania.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (10)... )
Listen to XC62014
Black-bellied Bustard (Lissotis melanogaster ) [XC62014 ]
by Rolf A. de By from Kruger NP, South Africa (call)
Listen to XC281989
Black-bellied Bustard (Lissotis melanogaster ) [XC281989 ]
by Rolf A. de By from Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda (call)
Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Hartlaub's Bustard (Lissotis hartlaubii ).
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
melanogaster (Rüppell, 1835) - Africa south of Sahel south to R Zambezi and southern Angola; absent from regions of heavy forest and from most of Horn of Africa.
notophila Oberholser, 1905 - Zimbabwe and Mozambique south of R Zambezi to extreme eastern South Africa and Swaziland.
References
See References .
Files:
BirdLife International
For more information about the Black-bellied Bustard see... BirdLife International Species Factsheet .
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