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 LC    Pink-breasted Lark* Id (Atlas):
    Calendulauda poecilosterna

Description (10)
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Family
Alaudidae (Larks)

Size
16 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Reichenow, 1879)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna.

Range (Guide)
Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

Extreme south-eastern Sudan and southern Ethiopia east to southern Somalia, south to north-eastern Uganda, much of Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (28)...)

 
Pink-breasted Lark (Calendulauda poecilosterna) [XC235195]
     by Rory Nefdt from Buffalo Springs and Samburu Reserves, Isiolo, Kenya (song)

 
Pink-breasted Lark (Calendulauda poecilosterna) [XC451463]
     by Frank Lambert from Buffalo Springs NP, Kenya, Kenya (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Has been suggested as forming a superspecies with Rusty Lark (Mirafra rufa) and Gillett's Lark (Mirafra gilletti). However, genetic data indicate that it belongs in the Calendulauda clade. Geographical variation in plumage tone, darkest and richest in south. Birds from extreme north of range (south-eastern Sudan east to southern Somalia) described as subspecies australoabyssinica and others from rest of range (except northern and eastern Kenya) as massaica, but differences minimal, and naming of subspecies considered unwarranted.


References
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Files:
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