Ardeotis

Ardeotis
	Kori bustard (Ardeotis kori)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Otidiformes
Family:	Otididae
Genus:	Ardeotis; Le Maout, 1853
Type species
	Otis arabs (Arabian bustard); Linnaeus, 1758

Ardeotis is a genus of birds in the family Otididae.

The genus was described in 1853 by the French naturalist Emmanuel Le Maout to accommodate the Arabian bustard.^[1]

Species

It contains the following species:^[2]

Genus **Ardeotis** – Le Maout, 1853 – four species
Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Arabian bustard	Ardeotis arabs (Linnaeus, 1758) Four subspecies A. a. lynesi (Bannerman 1930) (Moroccan bustard) A. a. stieberi (Neumann 1907) (great Arabian bustard) A. a. arabs (Linnaeus 1758) A. a. butleri (Bannerman 1930) (Sudan bustard)	Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.[8] It is a vagrant to Kenya, Gambia, northern Ivory Coast and northern Ghana.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Great Indian bustard	Ardeotis nigriceps (Vigors, 1831)	India and Pakistan	Size: Habitat: Diet:	CR
Australian bustard	Ardeotis australis (Gray, JE, 1829)	northern Australia and southern New Guinea	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Kori bustard	Ardeotis kori (Burchell, 1822) Two subspecies A. k. struthiunculus (Neumann 1907) (Northern Kori bustard) A. k. kori (Burchell 1822) (Southern Kori bustard)	Botswana and Namibia, extending into southern Angola and marginally into southwestern Zambia.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT