Somali short-toed lark
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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
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.[1] The Somali short-toed lark was formerly sometimes treated as a subspecies of the Mediterranean short-toed lark (Alaudala rufescens).[2]
Three subspecies are recognised:[3]
- 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
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