Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Otidiformes > Otididae > Houbaropsis > Houbaropsis bengalensisHoubaropsis bengalensis (Bengal Florican)Synonyms: Eupodotis bengalensis; Eupodotis bengalensis bengalensis; Otis bengalensis The Bengal florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis), also called Bengal bustard, is a bustard species native to the Indian subcontinent, Cambodia and Vietnam. It is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List because fewer than 1,500 individuals were estimated to be alive as of 2013.It is the only member of the genus Houbaropsis. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 24.2739 EDGE Score: 6.00236 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 3.803 lbs (1.725 kg) | | Birth Weight [2] | 72 grams | | Female Weight [1] | 4.354 lbs (1.975 kg) | | Male Weight [1] | 3.252 lbs (1.475 kg) | | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 33.9 % |  | | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | | Diet - Ectothermic [3] | 20 % | | Diet - Fruit [3] | 20 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 20 % | | Diet - Plants [3] | 20 % | | Diet - Seeds [3] | 20 % | | Forages - Understory [3] | 20 % | | Forages - Ground [3] | 80 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 1 | | Clutches / Year [5] | 1 | | Incubation [1] | 26 days | | Migration [6] | Intracontinental |
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| Name |
Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Central Indochina dry forests |
Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests |
India, Bhutan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests |
Bangladesh, India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Meghalaya subtropical forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Southeastern Indochina dry evergreen forests |
Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Southern Vietnam lowland dry forests |
Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands |
Bhutan, India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests |
Cambodia, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Tonle Sap-Mekong peat swamp forests |
Cambodia, Viet Nam |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Ang Tropeang Thmor |
Cambodia |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Bardia National Park |
Nepal |
A1, A4i |
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Barnadi Wildlife Sanctuary |
India |
A1 |
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Boeung Prek Lapouv |
Cambodia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Chitwan National Park |
Nepal |
A1, A3, A4i |
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D'Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary |
India |
A1, A2, A4i |
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Deobali Jalah |
India |
A1, A4i |
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Dibang Reserve Forest and adjacent areas |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Dibru: Saikhowa Complex |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Dudhwa National Park |
India |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Gorumara National Park |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Ha Tien |
Vietnam |
A1, A3 |
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Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Katerniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary and Girijapur Barrage |
India |
A1 |
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Kaziranga National Park |
India |
A1, A2, A4i, A4iii |
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Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary |
India |
A1 |
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Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve and Koshi Barrage |
Nepal |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Lagga: Bagga Reserve Forest |
India |
A1 |
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Laokhowa and Burhachapori Sanctuaries |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary |
India |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Majuli |
India |
A1, A2, A4iii |
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Manas National Park |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Nameri National Park |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Northern Santuk |
Cambodia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Orang National Park |
India |
A1, A4ii |
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Pabitora Wildlife Sanctuary |
India |
A1, A2, A4iii |
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Preah Net Preah / Kra Lanh / Pourk |
Cambodia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Ripu and Chirang Reserve Forest |
India |
A1, A2 |
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Sonai-Rupai Wildlife Sanctuary |
India |
A1 |
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Stung / Chi Kreng / Kampong Svay |
Cambodia |
A1, A3 |
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Stung / Prasat Balang |
Cambodia |
A1, A3 |
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Stung Sen / Santuk / Baray |
Cambodia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Subansiri |
India |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Sukla Phanta Wildlife Reserve |
Nepal |
A1, A4i |
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The Chapories of Lohit Reserve |
India |
A1, A2, A4i |
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Tram Chim |
Vietnam |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Veal Srongae |
Cambodia |
A1, A3, A4i |
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| Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Himalaya |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan |
No |
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Indo-Burma |
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
No |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 3Hamish 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 ♦ 4Jetz 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 ♦ 5Nathan 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 ♦ 6Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.orgEcoregions 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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