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Ardeotis nigriceps, Desert National Park, Rajasthan, India 1🐦

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SpeciesOtidiformesOtididae
Birds

🐦Great Indian Bustard

Ardeotis nigriceps (Vigors, 1831)

Abetarda-indiana (Ardeotis nigriceps) é uma espécie de ave da família Otididae.

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Also called
Indian Bustard
Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
7.24 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Great Indian Bustard

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
7.24 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tail length
0.26 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.62 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.09 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.18 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Grassland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
7.2 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Great Indian Bustard yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderOtidiformes
  5. ›familyOtididae
  6. ›genusArdeotis
  7. ›speciesArdeotis nigriceps
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. familyOtididae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyOtididae
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pioc salvatge indi (ca), drop černohlavý (cs), Indisk Trappe (da), Ardeotis nigriceps (de), Ardeotis nigriceps (es), intiantrappi (fi) … and 21 more languages
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