Great Indian Bustard
Ardeotis nigriceps(Vigors, NA, 1831)
English (US) Great Indian Bustard
The Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Otididae (Bustards) in the order Otidiformes.
Range: semiarid grassland of northwestern and central India; now very rare and mostly survives in RajasthanRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ardeotis nigriceps
- Family
- Otididae (Bustards)
- Order
- Otidiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Critically Endangered
- English (US)
- Great Indian Bustard
- Described by
- (Vigors, NA, 1831)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Otis nigriceps
- Described by
- (Vigors, NA, 1831)
- Type locality
- Himalayas.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1, no.3 p.35
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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