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 LC    Buff-crested Bustard* Id (Atlas):
    Lophotis gindiana

Description (10)
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Family
Otididae (Bustards)

Size
54 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Oustalet, 1881)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,800 m.

Range (Guide)
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

South-eastern Sudan, southern Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia through Kenya to northern and north-central Tanzania.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (14)...)

 
Buff-crested Bustard (Lophotis gindiana) [XC266851]
     by Frank Lambert from Yabello - Mega Road, 26 km south of Yabello, Ethiopia (call)

 
Buff-crested Bustard (Lophotis gindiana) [XC613356]
     by Michael Hurben from Awash National Park, Ethiopia (song, display song)

Subspecies
Red-crested Bustard (Lophotis ruficrista), Savile's Bustard (Lophotis savilei) and Buff-crested Bustard (Lophotis gindiana) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include savilei and gindiana as subspecies of Red-crested Bustard (Lophotis ruficrista).

Genus frequently merged with Eupodotis. Forms superspecies with Red-crested Bustard (Lophotis ruficrista) and Savile's Bustard (Lophotis savilei) and all often considered conspecific. Birds of northern and central Somalia formerly awarded separate subspecies, hilgerti.

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Buff-crested Bustard (Lophotis gindiana) - 10 files


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