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Eremopterix verticalis

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Southern Africa

[edit] Taxonomy

Eremopterix verticalis has four subspecies:^[1]

• E. v. damarensis

• Coastal Angola to Namibia, western Zambia and north-western Botswana

• E. v. harti

• Southern Zambia

• E. v. khama

• North-eastern Botswana to Zambia and Zimbabwe

• E. v. verticalis

• Western and central South Africa, south-eastern Botswana and extreme southern Zimbabwe

[edit] Habitat

Semi-desert and arid shrubland, grassland and savanna.

[edit] Behaviour

[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. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Hockey, PAR, WRJ Dean, and PG Ryan, eds. 2005. Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa. 7th ed. Cape Town: John Voelcker Bird Book Fund. ISBN 978-0620340533
3. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154

• List of references

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