Senegal Thick-knee
Burhinus senegalensis(Swainson, WJ, 1837)
English (US) Senegal Thick-knee
The Senegal Thick-knee (Burhinus senegalensis) 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: sandy lake and river banks from Senegal eastward to Ethiopia and southward to Cameroon and Kenya; also Egypt and SudanRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Burhinus senegalensis
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Senegal Thick-knee
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1837)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- OEdicnemus Senegalensis
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1837)
- Type locality
- West Africa = Senegal, by inference.
- Original description
- The natural history of the birds of Western Africa 2 p.228
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
Indian Stone-curlew
Burhinus indicus
Eurasian Stone-curlew
Burhinus oedicnemus
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