Burhinus oedicnemus Eurasian Thick-knee/Eurasian Stone-curlew
oedicnemus (Linnaeus, 1758) iW and S Europe to N Balkans, Ukraine and Caucasus area >> Senegal to Ethiopia and E Africa
saharae (Reichenow, 1894)1 iN Africa, Balearic Is., Malta, Cyprus, Levant to SC Turkey and SW Iran harterti Vaurie, 1963 iVolga delta, Transcaspia and NE Iran to W Pakistan and E Kazakhstan >> NE Africa and SW Asia [Vaurie, 1963 #3966]
distinctus (Bannerman, 1914) vW Canary Is.
insularum (Sassi, 1908) iE Canary Is.
indicus (Salvadori, 1865)2,3 vC Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka, mainland SE Asia to N Thai-Malay Pen. Burhinus vermiculatus Water Thick-knee/Water Dikkop
buettikoferi (Reichenow, 1898) iLiberia to S Nigeria and Gabon
vermiculatus (Cabanis, 1868) vDR Congo to S Somalia, south to Angola, N Botswana and E and S South Africa
Burhinus capensis Spotted Thick-knee/Spotted Dikkop
dodsoni (Ogilvie-Grant, 1899)5 iEritrea and N Somalia; W Yemen, W and C Oman maculosus (Temminck, 1824)6 vSenegal to Ethiopia and Somalia (except coast), south to N Uganda and N Kenya damarensis (Reichenow, 1905) vSW Botswana, Namibia, SW Angola
capensis (M.H.C. Lichtenstein, 1823) vSouth Africa and E and N Botswana to E and NW Angola, Tanzania and S Kenya
Burhinus bistriatus Double-striped Thick-knee
bistriatus (Wagler, 1829)7 vS Mexico (C Veracruz, SE Oaxaca) to NW Costa Rica dominicensis (Cory, 1883) vHispaniola
pediacus Wetmore & Borrero, 1964 vN Colombia (Atlántico to Guajira) and NW Venezuela (Zulia, Falcón) [Wetmore, 1964 #4147]
vocifer (L'Herminier, 1837) iE Colombia, N and C Venezuela, SW Guyana and adjacent N Brazil (NE Roraima)