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The Denham's Bustard, Stanley Bustard or Stanley’s Bustard, Neotis denhami, is a large bird in the bustard family. It breeds in much of sub-Saharan Africa. It is a species of open ground, including agricultural land, grassland, flood-plains and burnt fynbos. It is resident, but some inland populations move to lower altitudes in winter. The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. ...
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Fynbos (Afrikaans for fine bush) is the natural vegetation occurring in a small belt of South Africa, mainly in the South-western Cape. ...
Denham's Bustard is 84-116 cm long, with the male much larger than the female. The back is brown, darker and plainer in the male, and the underparts are white. The neck is pale grey with an orange nape, and the head has black stripes on the crown. The long legs are pale yellow. The wings are strikingly patterned in brown, white and black, the male showing more white in flight than the female or young birds.
The male inflates his throat when displaying to show a conspicuous balloon of white feathers. This species is usually silent.
Denham's Bustard feeds on insects, small vertebrates and plant material. It has suffered population declines through much, if not all, of its range.. Hunting is the primary cause of declines across the Sahel and west Africa, but in eastern and southern Africa, conversion of grassland to agriculture is a greater threat. Classes and Clades See below Male and female Superb Fairy-wren Vertebrates are members of the subphylum Vertebrata (within the phylum Chordata), specifically, those chordates with backbones or spinal columns. ...
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The common names for thie specie refer to the English explorer, Major Dixon Denham, and the English naturalist Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby Dixon Denham (January 1, 1786-May 8, 1828) was an English explorer in West Central Africa. ...
Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (April 21, 1775 - June 30, 1851) was an English politician, landowner, builder, farmer, art collector and naturalist. ...
References
- Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey and Warwick Tarboton, SASOL Birds of Southern Africa (Struik 2002) ISBN 1-86872-721-1
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