Somali short-toed lark
| Somali short-toed lark | |
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| An 1897 illustration of the Somali short-toed lark | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Alaudidae |
| Genus: | Alaudala |
| Species: | A. somalica
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| Binomial name | |
| Alaudala somalica Sharpe, 1895
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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.
Taxonomy
[edit]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.[3] The Somali short-toed lark was formerly sometimes treated as a subspecies of the Mediterranean short-toed lark (Alaudala rufescens).[4]
Three subspecies are recognised:[5]
- A. s. perconfusa (White, CMN, 1960) – northwest Somalia
- A. s. somalica Sharpe, 1895 – east Ethiopia and north Somalia
- A. s. megaensis (Benson, 1946) – south Ethiopia to central Kenya
References
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- ^ BirdLife International (2017). "Alaudala somalica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22717340A111109120. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T22717340A111109120.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ Ryan, P. "Somali Short-toed Lark (Calandrella somalica)". Handbook of the Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. doi:10.2173/bow.sstlar1.01. S2CID 216384296. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ^ Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1895). "On a collection of birds made by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith during his recent expedition in Western Somaliland". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 457-520 [472].
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 51.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (February 2025). "Nicators, Bearded Reedling, larks". IOC World Bird List Version 15.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
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