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The smallest larks are likely the Spizocorys species, which can weigh only around 14 g (0.49 oz) in species like the pink-billed lark and the Obbia lark, while the largest lark is the Tibetan lark. [15] Like many ground birds, most lark species have long hind claws, which are thought to provide stability while standing.
Greater hoopoe-lark: Alaemon alaudipes (Desfontaines, 1789) 1 Lesser hoopoe-lark: Alaemon hamertoni Witherby, 1905: 2 Beesley's lark: Chersomanes beesleyi Benson, 1966: 3 Spike-heeled lark: Chersomanes albofasciata (Lafresnaye, 1836) 4 Gray's lark: Ammomanopsis grayi (Wahlberg, 1855) 5 Short-clawed lark: Certhilauda chuana (Smith, A, 1836) 6 ...
A fairly small lark, the crested lark is roughly the same size as a Eurasian skylark, but shorter overall and bulkier around the head and body, and very similar in appearance, [7] with a height of 17 cm (6.7 in) and a wingspan of 29 to 38 cm (11 to 15 in), weighing between 37 and 55 g (1.3 and 1.9 oz). [8]
The large-billed lark or southern thick-billed lark (Galerida magnirostris) is a small passerine bird found in southern Africa. The name "large-billed lark" may also refer to Bradfield's lark . The name " thick-billed lark " more commonly refers to the species of the same name (i.e. Rhamphocoris clotbey ).
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The Arabian lark (Eremalauda eremodites) is a small passerine bird of the lark family. It is a desert bird which is found from Syria to Jordan and through Saudi Arabia to Oman.. The Arabian lark was formerly considered conspecific with Dunn's lark, but was classified as a distinct species by the Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive and by Birdlife International, and later by the ...
This lark was formerly considered as a subspecies of the Cape long-billed lark, as Certhilauda curvirostris brevirostris until it and three other subspecies were elevated to species status (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993). The Handbook of the Birds of the World re-lumped the species in with the Cape long-billed lark in 2017. [1]
The pink-breasted lark is estimated to have a global extent of occurrence of 560,000 km 2, covering a broad range from south-eastern South Sudan and southern Ethiopia through Kenya to southern Somalia, north-eastern Tanzania and eastern Uganda.