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Definition of florican

florican
Floriken Flo"ri*ken, n. (Zo["o]l.) An Indian bustard (Otis aurita). The Bengal floriken is Sypheotides Bengalensis. [Written also florikan, florikin, florican.]

Meaning of florican from wikipedia

- Florican may refer to birds of the bustard family: Bengal florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis) Lesser florican (Sypheotides indica) This disambiguation page...
- The Bengal florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis), also called the Bengal bustard, is a bustard species native to the Indian subcontinent, Cambodia, and Vietnam...
- The lesser florican (Sypheotides indicus), also known as the likh or kharmore, is the smallest in the bustard family and the only member of the genus Sypheotides...
- Bustards, including floricans and korhaans, are large, terrestrial birds living mainly in dry gr****land areas and in steppe regions. They range in length...
- river dolphin, as well as the critically endangered gharial, the Bengal florican, and the white-rumped vulture, which has become nearly extinct by having...
- blackbuck, wolf and lesser florican (a bustard) are ongoing. Considered to be an endemic Indian species, the lesser florican, which once lived throughout...
- "Status of the Bengal Florican in India". In Bombay Natural History Society (ed.). Status and Ecology of the Lesser and Bengal Floricans, with reports on Jerdon's...
- Gangetic Plain. The great Indian bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) and lesser florican (Sypheotides indicus) are considered globally threatened. The natural forest...
- species including 65+ Tigers, leopards, swamp deer, hispid hares and Bengal florican Etymologically Lakhimpur was known as Luxmipur. Kheri is a town 2 kilometres...
- species in the Rann of Kutch, including the threatened species lesser florican (Sypheotides indicus) and houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata). The seasonal...