#burhinidae

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Spotted Thick-Knee or Spotted Dikkop (Burhinus capensis), family Burhinidae, order Charadriiformes, found in open grassland and desert habitat of Sub-Saharan Africa

photos: Maciej, Pierrev66, and Bernard DUPONT 

Yellow-knobbed Curassow (Crax daubentoni), males, family Cracidae, order Galliformes, Colombia

Senegal Thick-Knee Burhinus senegalensis

A stone-curlew, a medium-large wader found in central Africa. This species has a preference for dry open habitats with some bare ground, preferably near water. It lays two blotchy light brown eggs on a ground scrape. It is most active at dawn and dusk. The song is a loud pi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi-pi.

Least Concern

A bush stone curlew (Burhinus grallarius) in Queensland, Australia

todays bird of the day is the bush stone curlew!!

Double-striped Thick-knee (Burhinus bistriatus)