Spotted Thick-knee Skull

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Scientific Name: Burhinus capensis
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Burhinidae
Size: 90mm long

This bizarre looking skull belongs to a Spotted Thick-knee, also know as Spotted Dikkop. They are an African wader bird, very closely related to our Bush Stone curlews here in Australia. The Thick-knees are a little smaller. Probably the closest Australians will get to owning a legal Bush Stonecurlew skull 😅

These skulls, with their massive orbital eye sockets have always reminded me of giant Lapwing skulls. 

This one is absolutely perfect, with all bones and its beak sheaths nicely preserved. 

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Collections: Birds, Skulls