Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region
showing areas
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 GRUIFORMES
      Otididae
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Tetrax tetrax
Arid grassland, heath, hills, farms. 
From the Iberian Peninsula, France, s Italy, Sardinia, Balkans, n Greece and n Morocco, e through Turkey and from Ukraine and Black Sea area e to Caspian Sea and s to Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Altai, Kirghiz steppes and Turkestan; sw Transcaspia, and n Iran to w,ne China, Mongolia and cs Siberia in Transbaicalia.
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Neotis denhami
Grassland, savanna, open woods. 
Senegambia, s Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, s Niger, Cameroon, Congo, C. Afr. Rep., s Chad and s Sudan to w Ethiopia, Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, w,sw Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, s to s Angola, n Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and c Mozambique; S. Africa in e,s Transvaal, e Orange Free State, Natal, e,s Cape Province. 
Includes burchelliiknown only from the unique type specimen. 
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Neotis denhami (Children, 1826) Synonym:Neotis burchellii 
The information provided by UNEP-WCMC 
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The specific name "cafra" (now suppressed) formerly was applied to this species, but belongs to a subspecies of Eupodotis senegalensis.
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Neotis nuba
Desert scrub, arid savanna. 
Mauritania e through Mali, Niger, c Chad and c Sudan to the Red Sea coast.
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Tetrax tetrax
Little Bustard
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Common
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Neotis denhami
Denham's Bustard
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Vagrant
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Neotis nuba
Nubian Bustard
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Chlamydotis undulata
Arid plains, steppes, semi-desert. 
Canary Is. of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote; n Africa from n Mauritania, Spanish Sahara and Morocco e to n Libya, n Sudan and w,n Egypt, incl. Sinai Pen., formerly c Egypt; s Israel, s Syria and locally from extreme e Turkey, Near East, Arabia, Iran, Transcaucasus and from Kazakhstan e 
to Altai and Turkestan, s to Transcaspia, e to Mongolia, w China and w Pakistan in sw Baluchistan.
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Ardeotis arabs
Dry savanna, desert scrub. 
Probably in Morocco; from sw Mauritania and Senegambia, s Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, s Niger, s Chad in Lake Chad region, and s Sudan to nw,nc Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and sw Arabia, incl. Yemen.
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Otis tarda
Arid steppe, dry heath, farms. 
From Iberian Pen., Germany, Poland Czechoslovakia and Balkans and nw Africa in n Morocco, e through Turkey, nw Iran, Ukraine to Black Sea e to Caspian Sea and s to n Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Altai, Kirghiz steppes and Turkestan; sw Transcaspia, to Mongolia and w China in nw Sinkiang.
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Chlamydotis undulata
Houbara Bustard
Local, rare
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Ardeotis arabs
Arabian Bustard
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recent records:
se.Morocco ?
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Otis tarda
Great Bustard
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 Local, declining
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Index Families
Otididae  06 sp --
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01-02-03-04-05-06
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2001 by Alberto Masi