Lark-like Bunting (Emberiza impetuani)

Other Names (World)
Lark-like Bunting,

Family
Emberizidae (Old World Buntings)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
Smith, 1836

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland and shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Swaziland, Zambia.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Song is a short series of buzzy notes, accelerating and ending in a dry trill. A soft 'tuc-tuc' call.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (29)...)

Lark-like Bunting (Emberiza impetuani) [XC402843]
by Alan Collett from Katkop farm, Cradockt, Eastern Cape, South Africa (call)

Lark-like Bunting (Emberiza impetuani) [XC415492]
by Lynette Rudman from Bankfontein campsite, Luckhof, Free State, South Africa (call)

Subspecies
Proposed subspecies eremica (described from near Otjiwarongo, north-central Namibia) subsumed into nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

impetuani Smith, 1836 - Angola (coastal plain south of Luanda, also locally in Moxico), Namibia, north-western South Africa and western Botswana, occasionally irrupting east to Zimbabwe and northern South Africa (Limpopo Province).
sloggetti (Macdonald, 1957) - Western South Africa, occasionally irrupting east to Mpumalanga, Swaziland, Lesotho and southern KwaZulu-Natal.
eremica Clancey, 1989 - Coastal southern Angola to Namibia and north-western South Africa.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Lark-like Bunting (Emberiza impetuani) - 10 files

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