Houbara Bustard Bird

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Houbara Bustard Bird The houbara Bustard wader could be a tiny to mid-sized wader. It measures 55–65 cm (22–26 in) long and spans 135–170 cm (53– 67 in) across the wings. It’s brown higher than and white below, with a black stripe down the edges of its neck. In flight, the long wings show giant areas of black and brown on the flight feathers.

It's slightly smaller and darker than MacQueen's wader. The sexes square measure similar, however the feminine, at sixty six cm (26 in) tall, is very smaller and greyer higher than the male, at seventy three cm (29 in) tall. It looks a awesome bird.


Psophia undulata was the scientific name proposed by Joseph Franz von Jacquin in 1784 who described a houbara brought from Tripoli to Vienna's Tiergarten SchĂśnbrunn.

Otis macqueenii was proposed by John Edward Gray in 1832 for a bustard from India drawn by Thomas Hardwicke.

The African houbara was subordinated to the genus Chlamydotis by RenĂŠ Lesson in 1839. MacQueen's bustard was long regarded a subspecies of the African houbara.


It was classified as a distinct species in 2003.

Classification: The Canarian houbara is that the taxonomic category Chlamydotis undulata fuertaventurae. The distinction between the 2 Chlamydotis species is that the peninsula. supported the rates of divergence of mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid sequences, the 2 taxonomic category ar thought to own separated from a standard antecedent around twenty to twenty five thousand years agone. The separation from MacQueen's wading bird is older at 430,000 years.


The British Ornithologists' Union's categorization Records Committee's call to just accept this split has been questioned on the grounds that the variations within the male prayer displays could also be functionally trivial, and wouldn't forestall interbreeding, whereas a distinction in a very pre-copulation show would indicate that the 2 ar separate species.

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