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Spotted thick-knee
Burhinus capensis · Family Burhinidae
Burhinus capensis
Family Burhinidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Burhinidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 140,334
- Countries and territories with records
- 47
About this species
This species has 140,334 occurrence records from 47 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (88.3%), Kenya (3.3%), Namibia (2.1%), Tanzania (1.6%) and Botswana (1.3%); together they account for 96.5% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.31% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Burhinus capensis combines the genus name Burhinus with the species epithet capensis. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Burhinus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Burhinus oedicnemus, Burhinus grallarius and Burhinus vermiculatus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 8 species of the family Burhinidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Burhinus oedicnemus. Its record count is 1.6 times the family average (87,090). The family Burhinidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.