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Photo by Seyed Babak Mus
Shahre-Babak, Iran, March 2005

Alaemon alaudipes

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Africa, Middle East and Asia:
Northern Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt Western Africa: Mauritania, Senegambia, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Chad
Eastern Africa: Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia
African Islands: Cape Verde
Middle East : Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran
Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India

[edit] Taxonomy

Photo by AJDH
Dammam, Saudi Arabia, July 2007

[edit] Subspecies

• A. a. boavistae^[1]:

• Cape Verde Islands

• A. a. alaudipes:

• Deserts of North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia)

• A. a. desertorum:

• Coastal Sudan (Port Sudan) to north-western Somalia and Aden

• A. a. doriae:

• Eastern Arabia to Iraq, Iran and north-western India

[edit] Habitat

Open rocky and sandy habitats, desert and semi-desert; near fresh and brackish water.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase

• List of references

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] External Links