Buntings and New World Sparrows (Emberizidae)
Lark-like Bunting (Emberiza impetuani) - HBW 16, p. 521
French: Bruant des rochers
German: Lerchenammer
Spanish: Escribano Alaudino
Taxonomy: Emberiza impetuani A. Smith, 1836, “country between Nu. Gariep and Tropic” = east Botswana.
Proposed race eremica (described from near Otjiwarongo, NC Namibia) subsumed into nominate. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- impetuani A. Smith, 1836 - Angola (coastal plain S of Luanda, also locally in Moxico), Namibia, NW South Africa and W Botswana, occasionally irrupting E to Zimbabwe and N South Africa (Limpopo Province).
- sloggetti (Macdonald, 1957) - W South Africa, occasionally irrupting E to Mpumalanga, Swaziland, Lesotho and S KwaZulu-Natal.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A group of birds on a drinking trough Locality Karas Region, Namibia (ssp impetuani)
Fran Trabalon 27 November 2011 10 weeks ago 8 sec 3.8 -
A bird standing and preening on a rock. Locality Erongo Region, Namibia (ssp impetuani)
Fran Trabalon 4 November 2011 10 weeks ago 18 sec 3.3
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Perched on a rock
Locality Etosha National Park, Kunene Region, Namibia
Lindsay Hansch 18 September 2007 42 weeks ago 4 -
A bird perched on the edge of a water tank.
Locality Pofadder, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (ssp impetuani)
David Beadle 31 January 2011 5 weeks ago 3.4 -
Adult standing in the sand.
Locality Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (Kalahari Gemsbok NP), Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Carmelo López 6 December 2010 1 year ago 3 -
A bird on the ground
Locality Etosha National Park, Kunene Region, Namibia
Aleix Comas 25 August 2007 2 years ago 3 -
Adult bird feeding of the ground
Locality Karoo National Park, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Loutjie Steenberg 21 December 2010 51 weeks ago 2.3 -
Perched in karoo shrub
Locality Karoo National Park, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Loutjie Steenberg 20 December 2010 51 weeks ago 1.9
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Call notes. 6:16am Locality Spitzkoppe, Erongo Region, Namibia
(ssp eremica)
Charles Hesse 13 November 2009 2 years ago 3
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