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Cream-coloured Courser

Animals; Birds

The Cream-colored Courser, Cursorius cursor, is a wader in the pratincole and courser family, Glareolidae. Although classed as waders, these are birds of dry open country, preferably semi-desert, ...

Great Thick-knee

Animals; Birds

The Great Stone-curlew or Great Thick-knee (Esacus recurvirostris) is a large wader which is a resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka into South-east Asia.

Egyptian Plover

Animals; Birds

The Egyptian Plover, Pluvianus aegyptius, is a wader, the only member of the genus Pluvianus. The Egyptian Plover is a localised resident in tropical sub-Saharan Africa.

The Senegal Thick-knee, Burhinus senegalensis, is a Stone-curlew, a group of waders in the family Burhinidae. It is a resident breeder in Africa between the Sahara and the equator, and in the Nile ...

Spotted Thick-knee

Animals; Birds

The Spotted Thick-knee, Burhinus capensis, also known as the Spotted Dikkop or Cape Thick-knee, is a stone-curlew in the family Burhinidae.

Stone-curlew

Animals; Birds

The Stone Curlew or Eurasian Stone-curlew Burhinus oedicnemus is a northern species of the Burhinidae (stone-curlew) bird family. The Stone-curlew occurs throughout Europe, north Africa and ...

Crab-plover

Animals; Birds

The Crab-plover or Crab Plover (Dromas ardeola) is a bird related to the waders, but sufficiently distinctive to merit its own family Dromadidae. Its relationship within the Charadriiformes is ...