Vietnam Adventure Tours & Travel, Trekking, Bird Watching, Cycling Tours

Bengal florican 
(Houbaropsis bengalensis), also called the Bengal bustard

The Bengal florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis), also called the Bengal bustard, is a bustard species native to the Indian subcontinent, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

The Bengal florican has two disjunct populations:
- One occurs from Uttar Pradesh through the Terai of Nepal to Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in India, to Bangladesh. 
- The other occurs in Cambodia and perhaps adjacent southern Vietnam.

The family name Otididae is from Latin ōtis (“bustard”), from Ancient Greek ὠτίς (ōtís).
The name Houbaropsis is a portmanteau, with the "opsis" part coming from the Greek word for "appearance" or "likeness" (\(\text{Greek:\ opsis}\)), and "Houbara" is a Latin term referring to the Houbara bustard. Houbaropsis means "resembling the Houbara". 
The word bustard comes from the Old French bistarda and some other languages.

Houbaropsis is a bird genus comprising bustards, including floricans and korhaans, are large, terrestrial birds in the family Otididae, formerly known as Otidae.

1/ Bengal florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis), also called the Bengal bustard