Ostriches live mainly in the grasslands, savannas and shrublands of southern and eastern Africa and can survive in deserts and open woodland.
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Ostriches live mainly in the grasslands, savannas and shrublands of southern and eastern Africa and can survive in deserts and open woodland.
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The common ostrich lives across much of Africa: Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique; BirdLife also lists Egypt, Algeria, Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, South Sudan and Djibouti. It is extinct in Libya and introduced to Australia and Eswatini. Its Syrian subspecies, the Arabian ostrich (S. c. syriacus), is extinct in the Middle East, probably since about 1966.
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The North African red-necked ostrich subspecies was introduced to Saudi Arabia as the subspecies most closely related to the extinct Arabian ostrich. It numbered about 330 birds in two areas, mostly in the Central Region, according to a 2018 estimate. Ostriches still occur in far south-eastern Egypt and are believed extinct in Libya.
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