Somali Short-toed Lark (Alaudala somalica)
About the Somali Short-toed Lark
The Somali short-toed lark (Alaudala somalica) is a small passerine bird of the lark family found in eastern and north-eastern Africa. The habitat of the Somali short-toed lark is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. The Somali short-toed lark was formally described in 1895 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe based on a specimen collected on the Haud plateau of Somalia by the American explorer Arthur Donaldson Smith. Sharpe coined the binomial name Alaudala somalica. The Somali short-toed lark was formerly sometimes treated as a subspecies of the Mediterranean short-toed lark (Alaudala rufescens). The Athi short-toed lark was formerly treated as a subspecies. Four subspecies are recognised: A. s. perconfusa (White, CMN, 1960) – northwest Somalia
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Listed as recorded in Ethiopia, Kenya in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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- Asian Short-toed LarkAlaudala cheleensisrecording
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