Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region
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 STRUTHIONIFORMES
          Struthionidae
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Struthio camelus
Formerly across n Africa and Arabia (S. c. syriacus, extinct ) and over more of S. Africa. 
Absent from most of central Africa in the belt of brachystegia woodland and from forested w,c, and se Africa from s Tanzania and Malawi to n Mozambique. 
Several races have been described (massaicus, olybdophanes, australis, spatzi, syriacus) based on size, bald or feathered crown, color of neck 
and egg-pore characteristics
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Struthio camelus
Ostrich
rediscovered W Sahara, southermost Morocco
extremely rare

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2001 by Alberto Masi