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Revision as of 09:10, 1 April 2014
Featured Article: Thick-billed Lark
Photo by Daniele Occhiato
Distribution
Deserts of Western Sahara, extreme northern Mauritania, south and south-eastern Morocco, west and interior northern Algeria, central and southern Tunisia, north-western Libya, central Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia. An irregular and rare visitor to Egypt; a sporadic visitor to southern Israel; an uncommon winter visitor to southern and central Saudi Arabia; small numbers seen occasionally in western Kuwait; vagrant in southern Yemen.
Diet
The diet consists of insects, seeds and plants. They use their strong bill to dig for seeds, which are swallowed whole. Grit is used to aid digestion. Forages singly or in small flocks.
