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[1966/10977] Bush stone-curlew - Burhinus grallarius

Also known as: bush thick-knee

Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Charadrii Family: Burhinidae (stone-curlews)

Photo credit: Rolo Rodsey via Macaulay Library

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Eurasian Stone-curlew

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Bush Thick-knee aka Bush Stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius)

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Double-striped Thick-knee (Burhinus bistriatus)

© Eric Ripma

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Triel, Oedicnemus oedicnemus | Die Vögel (1913) | Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884) | Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Bush Stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius) © Unknown

It hatches from active, common, distinctive, eerie, enormous, large, long, northern, open, small, wonderful, and yellow eggs.

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Spotted Thick-Knee (Burhinus capensis)

Family: Stone-Curlew Family (Burhinidae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Found mainly in dry grasslands and open woodlands across much of sub-Saharan Africa (although it is not uncommon for them to wander into more urban areas) the Spotted Thick-Knee is a relative of gulls, plovers, puffins and other seabirds that has adapted to terrestrial inland life, with the long legs of its wading ancestors allowing it to run at considerable speeds in pursuit of insects, small lizards and other land-dwelling prey while its speckled brown back and wings allows it to camouflage against dry vegetation to avoid detection by predators (mainly large birds-of-prey.) Most active at night, Spotted Thick-Knees spend much of the day resting with their bodies flattened against suitable vegetation to make them inconspicuous, and emerge at dusk to hunt and search for mates. The eggs of Spotted Thick-Knees, which are usually laid in pairs in twig-lined nests built under bushes or among tall vegetation, have similar markings on their shells to the feathers of adult birds to help them blend in, and both parents work together to feed and protect their chicks; if the nest is approached by a larger animal a parent will cover the eggs or chicks with their wings and fiercely peck at the potential intruder should they come closer, and in extreme situations adults have been observed pretending to be injured a short distance away from the nest in order to draw predators to them and away from their chicks.

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Laguna de La Playa, Saladas de Sástago-Bujaraloz

These saladas (salt lakes) make up an important part of the environment around the Monegros desert in Aragon. This one specifically has historically been used as a salt mine, and now it is protected as a Ramsar site. There are over 99 depressions close to this area that get flooded from time to time, but these saladas are the most important ones.

These lakes are endorheic, meaning they have no natural drainage. They are all made up of mainly gypsum, hence the prominent white rocks nearby. This location is very important for wildlife, with endangered halophyte (fauna and flora that can withstand/live in salty environments) plants such as Microcnemum coralloides, Halopeplis amplexicaulis, Limonium catalaunicum, or Macrochloa tenacissima (commonly known as esparto). These last two are not endangered. Aquatic fauna includes the endemic Candelacypris aragonica (a type of crustacean) or Artemia salina. The lizard Acanthodactylus erithurus, common in Iberian and Northeastern African desertic zones can also be seen there. Birds include the autarda (Otis tarda), the algavarán (Burhinus oedicnemus), or the chorla (Pterocles orientalis). Moreover, when the lakes fill up, more birds can be observed there, such as the churrupetas (Tringa totanus) or the chifleta (Actitis hypoleucos).

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Hesperoburhinus Černý et al., 2023 (new genus)

(An individual of Hesperoburhinus bistriatus, photographed by Steve Garvie, under CC BY-SA 2.0)

Meaning of name: Hesperoburhinus = western [in Greek] Burhinus [genus of dikkops including the Eurasian stone-curlew]

Species included: H. bistriatus (double-striped thick-knee, type species, previously in Burhinus) and H. superciliaris (Peruvian thick-knee, previously in Burhinus)

Age: Holocene (Meghalayan), extant

Where found: Woodlands, savannas, grasslands, and semi-deserts in Central and South America, as well as some Caribbean islands

Notes: Hesperoburhinus is a genus of dikkops (also called stone-curlews or thick-knees), a group of primarily nocturnal shorebirds. Despite being shorebirds, many dikkops can be found in arid inland habitats. Members of Hesperoburhinus are the only extant dikkops that live in the Americas, and can be readily recognized by having two black stripes on either side of a central gray stripe on the top of their head. Traditionally, they were classified along with most other dikkops in the genus Burhinus. However, recent studies suggest that Burhinus proper is more closely related to the large-beaked dikkop species in the genus Esacus than to the American dikkops.

Although one way to revise the taxonomy of these birds to be in line with their phylogenetic relationships would be to lump Esacus into Burhinus, the lineage leading to the American dikkops is thought to have split from other dikkops over 30 million years ago, older than the estimated origin time of most other modern shorebird genera. To emphasize this long period of separation, the authors of a new paper chose to coin a new genus for the American dikkops.

Reference: Černý, D., P. van Els, R. Natale, and S.M.S. Gregory. 2023. A new genus-group name for Burhinus bistriatus (Wagler, 1829) and Burhinus superciliaris (Tschudi, 1843). Avian Systematics 1: 31–43.

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Bush thick-knee (Burhinus grallarius)

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[2995/11080] Double-striped thick-knee - Burhinus bistriatus

Note: Clements places this bird in the genus Hesperoburhinus.

Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Charadrii Family: Burhinidae (stone-curlews)

Photo credit: Jhon Velasquez via Macaulay Library

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Peruvian Thick-knee (Burhinus superciliaris) at Sedgwick County Zoo #peruvianthickknee #birds #birdsofinstagram #birdstagram #birdsonearth #shorebirds #zoos #zoosmatter #sedgwickcountyzoo #zoophotography #zoophoto https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpki6ZrujEp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Bush Thick-knee aka Bush Stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius)

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Indian Stone-curlew (Burhinus indicus) © makarandsaraf

It hatches from active, bizarre, black, brown, dark, dry, high, large, rapid, shady, sharp, visible, vocal, white, and yellow eggs.

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Senegal thick-knee (Burhinus senegalensis)

Photo by Dirk van Mourik