Houbara Bustard (Chlamydotis undulata)
About the Houbara Bustard
The African houbara (Chlamydotis undulata), also known as the houbara bustard (houbara from Arabic: حُبَارَى, romanized: ḥubārā for bustards in general), is a relatively small bustard native to North Africa, where it lives in arid habitats. The global population is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 2014. There is a population in the Canary Islands which was assessed as Near Threatened in 2015, but has since also been assessed as Vulnerable. It is dull brown with black markings on the wings, a greyish neck and a black ruff along the side of the neck. Males are larger and heavier than females.
A real field recording of the Houbara Bustard. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed Public Domain / CC0 ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Algeria · xeno-canto lists 2 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- Macqueen's BustardChlamydotis macqueeniiprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.