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American Thick-knees
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American Thick-knees

Hesperoburhinus

Hesperoburhinus is a genus of birds in the stone-curlew family Burhinidae. The genus is distributed in Middle and South America. It contains two species, the double-striped thick-knee and the Peruvian thick-knee.

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Double-striped Thick-knee

speciesHesperoburhinus bistriatus

Peruvian Thick-knee

speciesHesperoburhinus superciliaris

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1505517.