Thick-knee
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
common name for terrestrial, Old World birds in the family Burhinidae. The name derives from the bird's thickened tarsal joints. Thick-knees are shy, solitary birds.
Bush Thick-knee Burhinus grallarius
Described by: Latham (1801)
Alternate common name(s): Bush Stone-curlew, Southern Thick-knee, Australian Thick-knee, Australian Stone Curlew, Willaroo
Old scientific name(s): Burhinus magnirostris ...
Great Thick-knee (Burhinus recurvirostris) is a widespread resident in India, found near banks of rivers and large water bodies. Size: 50-53 cm
Great Thick-Knee
Anseriformes ...
The cape thick-knee is the largest of all the African species of thick-knees.
Here at the Zoo
The Bird House & Garden is home to our cape thick-knees.
Being the only thick-knee in its range it is easy to identify when seen but note the black line above the white eyebrow and the distinct line between the dark brown breast and the white belly.
Stone-curlews or Thick-knees
The Stone-curlews or Thick-knees are a group of largely tropical waders in the family Burhinidae.
Beach Curlew, Beach Stone-Curlew, Beach Stone Curlew, Beach Stonecurlew, Reef Thick-knee, Great Australian Stone Plover, Great Australian Stone-Curlew, Great Australian Thick-knee, Great Stoneplover, Great Thick-knee
Bird Family : ...
Thick-knee, Spotted aka Cape Thick-knee aka Spotted Dikkop Burhinus capensis Found: Africa
Photographed by: 1, 2) Duncan Noakes 3) Sandy Cole at Birds of Eden, South Africa
4, 5) Dick Daniels at Jacksonvile Zoo, Florida 6, 7) Dick at ...
A pair of Bush Thick-knees shelter in the forest fringes
A juvenile Rainbow Pitta tempted us before we found the adults ...
The thick-knees are a group of largely tropical waders in the family Burhinidae. They are found worldwide within the tropical zone, with some species also breeding in temperate Europe and Australia.
Beach thick-knee (Esacus giganteus)
Dysoxylum (Dysoxylum pachypodum)
Ornate flying fox (Pteropus ornatus)
Bocquillonia (Bocquillonia longipes)
Striated heron (Butorides striata)
Curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) ...
Also known as thick-knees, medium-sized birds, related to waders and bustards, most of which live in dry places (but some live on river and lake sides and on coastal beaches).
Family Burhinidae (thick-knees)
Family Charadriidae (lapwings and plovers)
Family Chionidae (sheathbills and Magellanic plover) ...
Burhinus oedicnemus - Eurasian Thick-knee (photo)
Glareolidae - Coursers
Cursorius
Cursorius cursor - Cream-coloured Courser
Glareola
Glareola pratincola - European Pratincole
Glareola nordmanni - Black-winged Pratincole ...
The Bush Thick-knee in Northern Victoria (part1): Conservation and Management. Arthur Rylah Institute Technical report No 129.
Marchant, S. and Higgins, P.J. (Eds) (1993). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds.
The names Thick-knee and Stone-curlew are both in common use, the preference among authorities for one term or the other varying from year to year.
Water Dikkop (Burhinus vermiculatus), also called Water Thick-Knee by some authors, is a common resident of aquatic habitats in southern Africa.
The cryptic colouration enables the double striped thick-knees to blend in with the ground as they freeze when disturbed or rest during the day. When resting, these birds have the full length of the tarsus on the ground and the tibia is upright.
Oedicnemididae, thick-knees. Parridae. Sub-order 2. Lari.-Aquatic, vomer complete. Without basipterygoid processes. Front toes webbed; hallux small or absent. Large supraorbital glands. Since Miocene. Laridae, gulls, cosmopolitan.
 See also: Curlew, Plover, Stork, Pratincole, Heron
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