Larks (Alaudidae)
Pink-billed Lark (Spizocorys conirostris) - HBW 9, p. 591
French: Alouette à bec rose
German: Rotschnabellerche
Spanish: Alondra Piquirrosa
Taxonomy: Alauda conirostris Sundevall, 1850, Vetchkop, Free State, South Africa.
Has been thought to form a superspecies with S. sclateri, but usually considered closer to S. fringillaris. Geographical variation broadly clinal; several races possibly not sustainable. Birds from far S of range named as race transiens and others from NE South Africa as griseovinacea, both regarded as indistinguishable from nominate. Six subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- makawai (Traylor, 1962) - W Zambia (Liuwa and Mutala Plains).
- harti (Benson, 1964) - SW Zambia (Matabele Plain).
- damarensis Roberts, 1922 - N Namibia and NW Botswana.
- makawai (Traylor, 1962) - W Zambia (Liuwa and Mutala Plains).
- harti (Benson, 1964) - SW Zambia (Matabele Plain).
- damarensis Roberts, 1922 - N Namibia and NW Botswana.
- crypta (Irwin, 1957) - NE Botswana (Makgadikgadi Pan and L Dow).
- barlowi Roberts, 1942 - S Namibia, S Botswana and NW South Africa (Northern Cape).
- conirostris (Sundevall, 1850) - South Africa (Northwest Province E to Mpumulanga and W KwaZulu-Natal, S to Free State and Eastern Cape) and NW Lesotho.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird foraging Locality Puffodder, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa (ssp conirostris)
Helmut Schenkel Brunner 31 July 2003 5 years ago 14 sec 3.7 -
A bird feeding in short grass Locality Kimberley, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (ssp conirostris)
Keith Blomerley 27 January 2007 5 years ago 17 sec 1.8
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The darker south-eastern type.
Locality Roodeplaat Dam Nature Reserve, Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa
Robert Erasmus 24 August 2010 2 years ago 3.4 -
A bird feeding on the ground
Locality Etosha National Park, Kunene Region, Namibia (ssp damarensis)
Aleix Comas 26 August 2007 3 years ago 3
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