Buff-crested Bustard
Lophotis gindiana(Oustalet, J-FÉ, 1881)
English (US) Buff-crested Bustard
The Buff-crested Bustard (Lophotis gindiana) 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: southeastern South Sudan to eastern Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Somalia to northeastern Uganda, Kenya, and north-central TanzaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Lophotis gindiana
- Family
- Otididae (Bustards)
- Order
- Otidiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Buff-crested Bustard
- Described by
- (Oustalet, J-FÉ, 1881)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Eupodotis Gindiana
- Described by
- (Oustalet, J-FÉ, 1881)
- Type locality
- East Africa between Somaliland and Zanzibar.
- Original description
- Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris (7), 5 p.164
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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