Burhinus oedicnemus

(*Burhinus oedicnemus*)
## Subspecies

* *B. o. distinctus* (Central & western Canary Islands)
* *B. o. harterti* (Kazakhstan to Pakistan & India)
* *B. o. insularum* (Eastern Canary Islands)
* *B. o. oedicnemus* (Western, eastern & southern Europe)
* *B. o. saharae* (Northern Africa & Mediterranean islands to Iraq & Iran)

## Other Names

* Eurasian thick-knee
* Stone-curlew

## Habitats

### Suitable

* 3.4 Temperate shrublands
* 3.5 Tropical/subtropical dry shrublands
* 4.4 Temperate grasslands
* 4.5 Tropical/subtropical dry grasslands
* 14.1 Arable lands

## Distribution

### Ecozones

* Afrotropic
* Indomalaya
* Palearctic

### Terrestrial Ecoregions

* AT0112 Ethiopian montane forests
* AT0705 East Sudanian savanna
* AT0711 Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
* AT0713 Sahelian Acacia savanna
* AT0715 Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
* AT0721 Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic
* AT0801 Al Hajar montane woodlands
* AT0903 Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna
* AT0905 Saharan flooded grasslands
* AT1007 Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands
* AT1008 Ethiopian montane moorlands
* AT1302 Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert
* AT1304 Eritrean coastal desert
* AT1305 Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands
* AT1306 Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert
* AT1313 Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands
* AT1317 Red Sea coastal desert
* AT1319 Somali montane xeric woodlands
* AT1320 Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna
* AT1321 Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands
* IM1303 Northwestern thorn scrub forests
* IM1403 Indus River Delta-Arabian Sea mangroves
* PA0401 Appenine deciduous montane forests
* PA0402 Atlantic mixed forests
* PA0404 Balkan mixed forests
* PA0406 Cantabrian mixed forests
* PA0407 Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests
* PA0408 Caucasus mixed forests
* PA0409 Celtic broadleaf forests
* PA0410 Central Anatolian deciduous forests
* PA0412 Central European mixed forests
* PA0416 Crimean Submediterranean forest complex
* PA0418 Dinaric Mountains mixed forests
* PA0419 East European forest steppe
* PA0420 Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests
* PA0421 English Lowlands beech forests
* PA0422 Euxine-Colchic broadleaf forests
* PA0431 Pannonian mixed forests
* PA0432 Po Basin mixed forests
* PA0433 Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests
* PA0435 Rodope montane mixed forests
* PA0445 Western European broadleaf forests
* PA0446 Zagros Mountains forest steppe
* PA0501 Alps conifer and mixed forests
* PA0504 Carpathian montane forests
* PA0506 East Afghan montane conifer forests
* PA0507 Elburz Range forest steppe
* PA0513 Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests
* PA0515 Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests
* PA0521 Tian Shan montane conifer forests
* PA0801 Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe
* PA0802 Altai steppe and semi-desert
* PA0803 Central Anatolian steppe
* PA0805 Eastern Anatolian montane steppe
* PA0806 Emin Valley steppe
* PA0808 Gissaro-Alai open woodlands
* PA0810 Kazakh steppe
* PA0811 Kazakh upland
* PA0812 Middle East steppe
* PA0814 Pontic steppe
* PA0818 Tian Shan foothill arid steppe
* PA0904 Nile Delta flooded savanna
* PA0905 Saharan halophytics
* PA0906 Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh
* PA1008 Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe
* PA1009 Kuh Rud and Eastern Iran montane woodlands
* PA1010 Mediterranean High Atlas juniper steppe
* PA1018 Sulaiman Range alpine meadows
* PA1019 Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows
* PA1201 Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
* PA1202 Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests
* PA1203 Canary Islands dry woodlands and forests
* PA1204 Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests
* PA1205 Crete Mediterranean forests
* PA1206 Cyprus Mediterranean forests
* PA1207 Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
* PA1208 Iberian conifer forests
* PA1209 Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
* PA1210 Illyrian deciduous forests
* PA1211 Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
* PA1212 Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets
* PA1213 Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe
* PA1214 Mediterranean woodlands and forests
* PA1215 Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests
* PA1216 Northwest Iberian montane forests
* PA1217 Pindus Mountains mixed forests
* PA1218 South Appenine mixed montane forests
* PA1219 Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands
* PA1220 Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests
* PA1221 Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
* PA1222 Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests
* PA1303 Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands
* PA1305 Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
* PA1306 Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert
* PA1307 Baluchistan xeric woodlands
* PA1308 Caspian lowland desert
* PA1309 Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands
* PA1310 Central Asian northern desert
* PA1311 Central Asian riparian woodlands
* PA1312 Central Asian southern desert
* PA1313 Central Persian desert basins
* PA1318 Kazakh semi-desert
* PA1319 Kopet Dag semi-desert
* PA1320 Mesopotamian shrub desert
* PA1321 North Saharan steppe and woodlands
* PA1323 Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert
* PA1325 Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert
* PA1326 Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert
* PA1327 Sahara desert
* PA1328 South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert
* PA1329 South Saharan steppe and woodlands
* PA1331 Tibesti-Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands
* PA1332 West Saharan montane xeric woodlands