Indian Stone-curlew
Burhinus indicus(Salvadori, AT, 1866)
English (US) Indian Stone-curlew
The Indian Stone-curlew (Burhinus indicus) 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 Burhinidae (Thick-knees and Stone-curlews) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: inland northwestern and western India and Sri Lanka eastward to central Myanmar, central Thailand, Cambodia, and southern VietnamRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Burhinus indicus
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Indian Stone-curlew
- Described by
- (Salvadori, AT, 1866)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Oedicnemus indicus
- Described by
- (Salvadori, AT, 1866)
- Type locality
- India.
- Original description
- Atti della SocietĂ Italiana di Scienze Naturali 8 p.380
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
Other species of the family Thick-knees and Stone-curlews
Peruvian Thick-knee
Hesperoburhinus superciliaris
Double-striped Thick-knee
Hesperoburhinus bistriatus
Beach Stone-curlew
Esacus magnirostris
Great Stone-curlew
Esacus recurvirostris
Bush Stone-curlew
Burhinus grallarius
Spotted Thick-knee
Burhinus capensis
Water Thick-knee
Burhinus vermiculatus
Senegal Thick-knee
Burhinus senegalensis
Eurasian Stone-curlew
Burhinus oedicnemus
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