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 LC    Temminck's Lark* Id (Atlas):
    Eremophila bilopha

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Temminck's Lark, Temminck's Horned Lark

Family
Alaudidae (Larks)

Size
14 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Temminck, 1823)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland. From sea-level - 1,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Algeria, Egypt, Iraq (B) (NB), Israel (B), Jordan (B) (NB) (P), Kuwait (B), Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mauritania, Morocco, Saudi Arabia (B), Syrian Arab Republic (B), Tunisia, Western Sahara (B) (NB).

Vagrant to Gambia, Spain, United Arab Emirates.

Unknown to Afghanistan.

Extreme north-western Mauritania, Western Sahara and southern and eastern Morocco east to north-eastern Egypt (Sinai Peninsula) and Middle East (Syria, Jordan, southern Israel, western Iraq, northern Saudi Arabia, Kuwait).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (26)...)

 
Temminck's Lark (Eremophila bilopha) [XC892430]
     by Sven Normant from Imiter, Ouarzazate Province, Dr\u00e2a-Tafilalet, Morocco (call)

 
Temminck's Lark (Eremophila bilopha) [XC892442]
     by Sven Normant from Izoumgane, Tinghir Province, Dr\u00e2a-Tafilalet, Morocco (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris), formerly considered conspecific. Smaller birds from southern Western Sahara (Río de Oro) described as subspecies elegans, but similarly small birds occur elsewhere in species' range (e.g. Libya and western Egypt).


References
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Files:
JPG files for Temmincks Lark (Eremophila bilopha) - 10 files


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