Birds of the World

    CHARADRIIFORMES: Burhinidae (Stone-curlews, Thick-knees)  
Genus: Burhinus (8 species)


Double-striped Thick-knee
Double-striped Thick-knee (Burhinus bistriatus)
Range: MA, SA: inland s Mexico to nw Costa Rica; n Hispaniola; Colombia to n Brazil
Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

A chicken-sized bird found in grasslands.

Spotted Thick-knee
Spotted Thick-knee (Burhinus capensis)
Range: AF: s Arabian Pen.; widespread, inland Sub-Saharan Africa
Plettenberg Bay, South Africa  
 
Photograph by Graham Searll   © All Rights Reserved.


Bush Stone-curlew
Bush Stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius)
Range: AU: inland s Trans-Fly (sc New Guinea) and Australia (except sc, Tasmania)
Daintree Village, Queensland, Australia  
 
Photograph by JJ Harrison     Copyright and usage info


Indian Stone-curlew
Indian Stone-curlew (Burhinus indicus)
Range: OR: inland nw, w India and Sri Lanka e to c Myanmar, c Thailand, Cambodia and s Vietnam
Palatupana Saltern, Southern Province, Sri Lanka  
 
Photograph by David Cook     Copyright and usage info


Eurasian Stone-curlew
Eurasian Stone-curlew (Burhinus oedicnemus)
Range: PAL: w Europe, Canary Is. and n Africa to Lithuania, n Kazakhstan and far w China, s to Levant, Iraq and w Pakistan
Fuerteventura, Tinday, Canary Island, Spain  
 
Photograph by Andrej Chudy     Copyright and usage info


Senegal Thick-knee
Senegal Thick-knee (Burhinus senegalensis)
Range: AF: inland Senegal to Ethiopia and Kenya and n to Egypt
Murchison Falls NP, Uganda  
 
Photograph by Nik Borrow     Copyright and usage info


Peruvian Thick-knee
Peruvian Thick-knee (Burhinus superciliaris)
Range: SA: coastal s Ecuador to n Chile
Mejía, Peru  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.


Water Thick-knee
Water Thick-knee (Burhinus vermiculatus)
Range: AF: inland w, c to e, s Africa
Plettenberg Bay, South Africa  
 
Photograph by Graham Searll   © All Rights Reserved.



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