Ardeotis


Ardeotis is a bird genus in the family Otididae. It contains the following species:
ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Ardeotis arabsArabian bustardAlgeria, 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.
Ardeotis koriKori bustardBotswana and Namibia, extending into southern Angola and marginally into southwestern Zambia.
Ardeotis nigricepsGreat Indian bustardIndia and Pakistan
Ardeotis australisAustralian bustardnorthern Australia and southern New Guinea