Flappet lark
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Alaudidae |
| Genus: | Mirafra |
| Species: | M. rufocinnamomea |
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| Mirafra rufocinnamomea (Salvadori, 1865) | |
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The flappet lark (Mirafra rufocinnamomea) is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family which is widespread in Africa.
Taxonomy and systematics
The flappet lark was originally placed in the genus Megalophonus.[2] Fry, Keith and Urban, in The Birds of Africa, regard this species and the Cape clapper lark as forming a superspecies with the Eastern clapper lark. The alternate name, "cinnamon bush lark", is also an alternate name for Horsfield's bush lark.
Subspecies
Fifteen subspecies are recognized:[3]
- Buckley's lark or West African cinnamon bush-lark (M. r. buckleyi) - (Shelley, 1873): Found from southern Mauritania and Senegal to northern Cameroon
- M. r. serlei - White, CMN, 1960: Found in south-eastern Nigeria
- Ubangi cinnamon lark (M. r. tigrina) - Oustalet, 1892: Found from eastern Cameroon to northern Democratic Republic of Congo
- Darfur flappet lark (M. r. furensis) - Lynes, 1923: Found in west-central Sudan
- Sobat flappet lark (M. r. sobatensis) - Lynes, 1914: Found in central Sudan
- M. r. rufocinnamomea - (Salvadori, 1865): Found in north-western and central Ethiopia
- Abyssinian flappet lark (M. r. omoensis) - Neumann, 1928: Found in south-western Ethiopia
- M. r. torrida - Shelley, 1882: Found from south-eastern Sudan and northern Ethiopia to northern Uganda, central Kenya and central Tanzania
- Rwenzori flappet lark (M. r. kawirondensis) - van Someren, 1921: Found in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, western Uganda and western Kenya
- Nyasaland flappet lark (M. r. fischeri) - (Reichenow, 1878): Found in Angola, southern Democratic Republic of Congo, northern Zambia and northern Mozambique north through eastern Tanzania, eastern Kenya to southern Somalia
- M. r. schoutedeni - White, CMN, 1956: Found in Gabon and Central African Republic to western Democratic Republic of Congo and north-western Angola
- M. r. lwenarum - White, CMN, 1945: Found in north-western Zambia
- M. r. smithersi - White, CMN, 1956: Found in northern Zambia, Zimbabwe, north-eastern Botswana and northern South Africa
- M. r. pintoi - White, CMN, 1956: Found in southern Mozambique, Swaziland and north-eastern South Africa
- M. r. mababiensis - (Roberts, 1932): Found in western Zambia to central Botswana
Distribution and habitat
The flappet lark has a large range covering much of the African continent with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km2.[1] Its natural habitats are dry savannah, moist savannah, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
References
- 1 2 BirdLife International (2012). "Mirafra rufocinnamomea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ "Mirafra rufocinnamomea - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
- ↑ "IOC World Bird List 6.4". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.6.4.
External links
- Species factsheet - BirdLife International
- Species text - The Atlas of Southern African Birds
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