Double-striped Thick-knee (Burhinus bistriatus)
About the Double-striped Thick-knee
The double-striped thick-knee (Hesperoburhinus bistriatus) is a stone-curlew, a group of waders in the family Burhinidae. The vernacular name refers to the prominent joints in the long greenish-grey legs, and bistriatus to the two stripes of the head pattern. The double-striped thick-knee was formally described in 1829 by the German naturalist Johann Georg Wagler from a specimen collected in Mexico. He coined the binomial name Charadrius bistriatus. The specific epithet bistriatus combines the Latin bi- meaning "two-" or "double-" with striatus meaning "stripe". The double-striped thick-knee was moved to the genus Burhinus that was erected by the German zoologist Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in 1811. In IOC 14.1, the double-striped thick-knee was transferred to the newly described genus Hesperoburhinus.
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Listed as recorded in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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- Eurasian Stone-curlewBurhinus oedicnemusrecording
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