Bar-tailed Lark (Ammomanes cinctura)

Other Scientific Names
Ammomanes cincturus [BirdLife International (2004)], Ammomanes cincturus [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Ammomanes cincturus [Cramp and Simmons (1977-1994)], Ammomanes cincturus [Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993)]

Other Names (World)
Bar-tailed Lark, Bar-tailed Desert Lark, Bar-tailed Sand Lark, Black-tailed Lark, Black-tailed Desert Lark, Black-tailed Finch-lark

Family
Alaudidae (Larks)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gould, 1839)

Habitat
Hot desert, dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,700 m.

Range (Guide)

Afghanistan (B) (NB), Algeria, Bahrain (B) (NB), Cape Verde, Chad, Egypt, Iran [Islamic Republic of] (B), Iraq (B) (NB), Israel (B), Jordan (B) (NB), Kuwait (B), Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman (B), Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (B), Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates (NB), Western Sahara (B).

Vagrant to Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen (B).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (31)...)

Bar-tailed Lark (Ammomanes cinctura) [XC518883]
by Marcin So\u0142owiej from Riyadh Province, Iran (call)

Bar-tailed Lark (Ammomanes cinctura) [XC131914]
by Cedric Mroczko from Fderik, Tiris Zemmour, Mauritania (alarm call)

Subspecies
Has been thought to form a superspecies with Rufous-tailed Lark (Ammomanes phoenicura), and in the past considered conspecific. Paler and smaller birds from Chad (Ennedi) and Sudan sometimes separated as subspecies pallens, but appear indistinguishable from arenicolor.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

cinctura (Gould, 1839) - Cape Verde Is (S�o Tiago, Maio, Boavista, Sal).
arenicolor (Sundevall, 1850) - Sahara Desert from southern and eastern Morocco east to Libya (Cyrenaica) and Egypt (including Sinai Peninsula) and south, discontinuously, to western and south-eastern Mauritania, west-central Mali, CNiger, northern and eastern Chad and central and north-eastern Sudan. Also Middle East (southern Israel, Jordan, Iraq) and Arabian Peninsula.
zarudnyi Hartert, 1902 - Eastern Iran east to southern Afghanistan and southern Pakistan.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Bar-tailed Lark (Ammomanes cinctura) - 10 files

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