Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Otidiformes > Otididae > Neotis > Neotis nubaNeotis nuba (Nubian Bustard)Synonyms: Otis nuba (homotypic) The Nubian bustard (Neotis nuba) is a species of bird in the bustard family. This is a medium-large bustard found in the sparsely vegetated interface between the southern margins of the Sahara desert and the northern part of the Sahel. It is found in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Sudan.Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 19.8843 EDGE Score: 3.73215 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 11.993 lbs (5.44 kg) | | Male Weight [1] | 11.993 lbs (5.44 kg) |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 10 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 50 % | | Diet - Plants [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 80 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 2 |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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East Saharan montane xeric woodlands |
Chad, Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Sahara desert |
Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Niger |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Sahelian Acacia savanna |
Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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South Saharan steppe and woodlands |
Mauritania, Mali, Algeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands |
Chad, Libya |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Arâguîb el Jahfa |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Banc d'Arguin National Park |
Mauritania |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Dilia de Lagané |
Niger |
A1, A3 |
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El Ghallâouîya |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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El Mréiti |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Ibi (Graret el Frass) |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Jebel Marra |
Sudan |
A1, A3 |
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Kediet ej Jill |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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NNR Aïr: Ténéré |
Niger |
A1, A3 |
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Ouadi Rimé: Ouadi Achim |
Chad |
A1, A3 |
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Tamreïkat |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Tinigart |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Um Badr lake |
Sudan |
A1, A3 |
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Wad Initi |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Wagchogda |
Mauritania |
A1, A3 |
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Waza National Park |
Cameroon |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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