Thick-billed Lark (Ramphocoris clotbey)
About the Thick-billed Lark
The thick-billed lark (Ramphocoris clotbey) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae native to north Africa and the far southwest of Asia, in the northern Sahara and Arabian Deserts. It was named after Bey Antoine Clot. Charles Lucien Bonaparte originally described it in the genus Melanocorypha, but later the same year he described the new monotypic genus Ramphocoris for it, in which it is still placed. The species is monotypic, with no subspecies described. Its closest relatives are the larks in the genus Ammomanes; these differ in plainer sandy-brown plumage and slender bills. Despite sharing stout bill structure, the larks in the genera Eremopterix and Melanocorypha are less closely related.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 37 recordings for this species: 32 CC BY-NC-SA · 2 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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