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 LC    Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark* Id (Atlas):
    Eremopterix verticalis

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark, Gray-backed Sparrow-Lark, Grey-backed Finch-lark, Gray-backed Finch-lark

Family
Alaudidae (Larks)

Size
12 - 13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Smith, 1836)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry grassland.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Lesotho.

Unknown to Congo [The Democratic Republic of the].

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
A sharp 'chruk, chruk', uttered in flight.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (10)...)

 
Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark (Eremopterix verticalis) [XC816640]
     by Frank Lambert from Vredeshof, The Willows rd, Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (call)

 
Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark (Eremopterix verticalis) [XC288401]
     by Peter Boesman from Aberdeen Plain (near Rietbron), Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (call)

Subspecies
Relationships uncertain. Suggested as forming a superspecies with Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark (Eremopterix signatus), sometimes expanded to include also Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark (Eremopterix nigriceps) and Fischer's Sparrow-Lark (Eremopterix leucopareia). Precise breeding ranges of subspecies inadequately understood. Birds breeding in south-western Zambia of uncertain racial identity and presumably include harti, but all four subspecies recorded in that country.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • damarensis Roberts, 1931   -  Coastal Angola (including Cabinda), Namibia, western Botswana and north-western South Africa; periodic eruptions east to western Zambia and western Zimbabwe.
  • harti Benson & Irwin, 1965   -  Western Zambia.
  • khama Irwin, 1957   -  North-eastern Botswana and western Zimbabwe; periodic eruptions north-east to western Zambia.
  • verticalis (Smith, 1836)   -  South-western Zimbabwe, south-eastern Botswana and South Africa (except north-west); periodic eruptions north to western Zambia.



References
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Files:
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