Little Brown Bustard
Heterotetrax humilis(Blyth, E, 1855)
English (US) Little Brown Bustard
The Little Brown Bustard (Heterotetrax humilis) 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: acacia and thornbush of eastern Ethiopia and northern SomaliaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Heterotetrax humilis
- Family
- Otididae (Bustards)
- Order
- Otidiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Little Brown Bustard
- Described by
- (Blyth, E, 1855)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Sypheotides humilis
- Described by
- (Blyth, E, 1855)
- Type locality
- Somaliland.
- Original description
- Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 24, no.4 p.304-305
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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