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 LC    Heuglin's Bustard* Id (Atlas):
    Neotis heuglinii

Description (10)
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Family
Otididae (Bustards)

Size
89 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1859)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland and shrubland, hot desert.

Range (Guide)
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia.

Vagrant to Eritrea.

Eritrea, eastern and southern Ethiopia, Djibouti, northern and south-central Somalia and northern Kenya.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged with Otis. Present species considered to form parapatric species pair with Denham's Bustard (Neotis denhami), but perhaps in reality closer to Nubian Bustard (Neotis nuba).

No subspecies.


References
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Files:
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