Ardeotis
{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
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| image = Ardeotis kori Etosha.JPG
| image_caption = Kori bustard (Ardeotis kori)
| taxon = Ardeotis
| authority = Le Maout, 1853
| type_species= Otis arabs (Arabian bustard)
| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758
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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.{{ cite book | last=Le Maout | first=Emmanuel | author-link=Emmanuel Le Maout | date=1853 | title=Histoire naturelle des oiseaux : suivant a classification de M. Isidore Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, avec l'indication de leurs moeurs et de leurs rapports avec les arts, le commerce et l'agriculture | language=French | location=Paris | publisher=L. Curmer | page=340 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53548891 }}
Species
{{Species table |genus=Ardeotis |authority-name=Le Maout |authority-year=1853 |species-count=four|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
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|name=Arabian bustard |binomial=Ardeotis arabs
|image=File:Arabian Bustard.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Linnaeus |authority-year=1758 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= 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.
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|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Four subspecies |bullets=on
| 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)
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|name=Great Indian bustard |binomial=Ardeotis nigriceps
|image=File:Great Indian Bustard from DNP (cropped).jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Vigors |authority-year=1831 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= India and Pakistan
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|name= Australian bustard|binomial=Ardeotis australis
|image=File:Australian Bustard 2.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Gray, JE|authority-year= 1829 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= northern Australia and southern New Guinea
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|name=Kori bustard |binomial=Ardeotis kori
|image=File:Ardeotis kori -Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania-8.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Burchell |authority-year= 1822|authority-not-original=yes
|range= Botswana and Namibia, extending into southern Angola and marginally into southwestern Zambia.
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| A. k. struthiunculus (Neumann 1907) (Northern Kori bustard)
| A. k. kori (Burchell 1822) (Southern Kori bustard)
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References
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