Water Thick-knee
Burhinus vermiculatus
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Burhinidae
- Genus
- Burhinus
- eBird Code
- watkne1
Vocalizations
Ben Costamagna · CC_BY_4_0
Sunčana Bradley · CC_BY_4_0
flamelily · CC0_1_0
Subspecies (2)
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Burhinus vermiculatus buettikoferi
West Africa from Liberia to Nigeria and Gabon
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Burhinus vermiculatus vermiculatus
northern East Africa to southern South Africa, from Angola and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo eastward to southern Somalia, southward to southernmost South Africa
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.