Red-winged lark | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Alaudidae |
Genus: | Mirafra |
Species: | M. hypermetra
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Binomial name | |
Mirafra hypermetra (
Reichenow, 1879)
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Subspecies | |
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resident range | |
Synonyms | |
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The red-winged lark (Mirafra hypermetra) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found in eastern Africa.
The red-winged lark is taken to form a species complex with the allopatric [2] rufous-naped lark, and perhaps with the Somali lark. The name "red-winged lark" is sometimes used as an alternate name for the Indian bush lark. The alternate names red-winged bush lark and rufous-winged bush lark may also be used to describe the Indian bush lark or the Bengal bush lark respectively. [3] [4]
Four subspecies are recognized: [5]
It is a larger version of the rufous-naped lark, with a more robust bill and longer tail, [6] but their morphological and vocal features do not intergrade where they occur together. [7]
It has a patchy but quite extensive range in equatorial eastern Africa. It occurs within Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, and its estimated global extent of occurrence is 660,000 km2. [1] Its total population has yet to be quantified, but is believed to be large. [1]
Its natural habitat is savanna [6] in tropical to subtropical dry, open, lowland.
Red-winged lark | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Alaudidae |
Genus: | Mirafra |
Species: | M. hypermetra
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Binomial name | |
Mirafra hypermetra (
Reichenow, 1879)
| |
Subspecies | |
See text | |
resident range | |
Synonyms | |
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The red-winged lark (Mirafra hypermetra) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found in eastern Africa.
The red-winged lark is taken to form a species complex with the allopatric [2] rufous-naped lark, and perhaps with the Somali lark. The name "red-winged lark" is sometimes used as an alternate name for the Indian bush lark. The alternate names red-winged bush lark and rufous-winged bush lark may also be used to describe the Indian bush lark or the Bengal bush lark respectively. [3] [4]
Four subspecies are recognized: [5]
It is a larger version of the rufous-naped lark, with a more robust bill and longer tail, [6] but their morphological and vocal features do not intergrade where they occur together. [7]
It has a patchy but quite extensive range in equatorial eastern Africa. It occurs within Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, and its estimated global extent of occurrence is 660,000 km2. [1] Its total population has yet to be quantified, but is believed to be large. [1]
Its natural habitat is savanna [6] in tropical to subtropical dry, open, lowland.