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Alternative name: Temminck's Horned Lark

Eremophila bilopha

Photo by rony roshtov

[edit] Identification

14-15 cm. Red brown-grey above and pale below, black and white face pattern. The juvenile is reddish above and pale below.

[edit] Distribution

Northern Africa from Western Sahara to Egypt, northern Arabian Peninsula and Iraq.

[edit] Taxonomy

This species in monotypic¹. The genus Eremophila only has three species, with Horned Lark and Dunn's Lark the other two.

[edit] Habitat

Desert.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019

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