Somali Ostrich
Struthio molybdophanesReichenow, A, 1883
English (US) Somali Ostrich
The Somali Ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes) 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 Struthionidae (Ostriches) in the order Struthioniformes.
Range: desert to savanna plains of northeastern Africa, from northern Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Somalia southward through far southeastern South Sudan, and southeastern KenyaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Struthio molybdophanes
- Order
- Struthioniformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Somali Ostrich
- Described by
- Reichenow, A, 1883
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Reichenow, A, 1883
- Type locality
- Somaliland.
- Original description
- Mittheilungen des Ornithologischen Vereines in Wien p.202
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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