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Ardeotis arabs
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Ethiopia

Identification

Distribution

Arid northwestern Africa to Red Sea and southwestern Arabia.

Taxonomy

Subspecies1

  • A. a. lynesi - Probably extinct; W Morocco
  • A. a. stieberi - SW Mauritania and Senegambia to ne Sudan
  • A. a. butleri - S Sudan; single record for nw Kenya
  • A. a. arabs - Ethiopia to nw Somalia, sw Saudi Arabia and w Yemen

Habitat

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2008. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019

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