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Eurasian Stone-curlew
Burhinus oedicnemus · Family Burhinidae
Burhinus oedicnemus
Family Burhinidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Burhinidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 228,325
- Countries and territories with records
- 101
About this species
This species has 228,325 occurrence records from 101 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from France (35.2%), Spain (31%), Israel (11.5%), Portugal (4.5%) and the United Kingdom (4.2%); together they account for 86.4% of the total. In France, this species accounts for 0.14% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Burhinus oedicnemus combines the genus name Burhinus with the species epithet oedicnemus. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Burhinus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Burhinus capensis, Burhinus grallarius and Burhinus vermiculatus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 8 species of the family Burhinidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 2.6 times the family average (87,090). The family Burhinidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.