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 LC    Thick-billed Lark* Id (Atlas):
    Ramphocoris clotbey

Description (10)
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Other Scientific Names
Ramphocoris clotbey [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Ramphocoris clotbey [Cramp and Simmons (1977-1994)], Ramphocoris clotbey [Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993)], Rhamphocorys clotbey [Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993)]

Other Names (World)
Thick-billed Lark, Clotbey('s) Lark

Family
Alaudidae (Larks)

Size
17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Bonaparte, 1850)

Habitat
Hot desert.

Range (Guide)
Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan (B) (NB), Kuwait (B), Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mauritania, Morocco, Saudi Arabia (B), Tunisia.

Vagrant to Oman, Yemen.

Deserts of north-western Africa (Western Sahara, extreme northern Mauritania, southern and south-eastern Morocco, western and interior northern Algeria, central and southern Tunisia, north-western Libya), central Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (13)...)

 
Thick-billed Lark (Ramphocoris clotbey) [XC464452]
     by Sven Normant from Ait Ayach, Khenifra Province, Dr\u00e2a-Tafilalet, Morocco (call)

 
Thick-billed Lark (Ramphocoris clotbey) [XC892455]
     by Fernand DEROUSSEN from Boumalne Dades, Ouarzazate Province, Dr\u00e2a-Tafilalet, Morocco (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Spelling of genus name often emended to Rhamphocorys.


References
See References.


Files:
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