Collared lark

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| image = Mirafra Gronvold.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Mirafra collaris |volume=2016 |page=e.T22717076A94520593 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22717076A94520593.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Amirafra

| species = collaris

| authority = (Sharpe, 1896)

| synonyms =

| range_map = Mirafra collaris distribution map.png

}}

The collared lark (Amirafra collaris) or collared bushlark is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found in East Africa.{{Cite web|url=http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=D0EAD8A3FDFAFC2E|title=Mirafra collaris - Avibase|website=avibase.bsc-eoc.org|access-date=2016-12-10}}

Taxonomy

The collared lark was formerly placed in the genus Mirafra. It is one of three species that were moved to the resurrected genus Amirafra based on the results of a large molecular genetic study by the Swedish ornithologist Per Alström and collaborators that was published in 2023.{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=August 2024 | title=Nicators, Bearded Reedling, larks | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/larks/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=10 September 2024 }}{{Cite journal | last1=Alström | first1=P. | author1-link=Per Alström | last2=Mohammadi | first2=Z. | last3=Enbody | first3=E.D. | last4=Irestedt | first4=M. | last5=Engelbrecht | first5=D. | last6=Crochet | first6=P.-A. | last7=Guillaumet | first7=A. | last8=Rancilhac | first8=L. | last9=Tieleman | first9=B.I. | last10=Olsson | first10=U. | last11=Donald | first11=P.F. | last12=Stervander | first12=M. | date=2023 | title=Systematics of the avian family Alaudidae using multilocus and genomic data | journal=Avian Research | volume=14 | pages=100095 | doi=10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100095 | doi-access=free}} The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.

Distribution and habitat

The collared lark has a considerable range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 530,000 km² over an area from eastern Ethiopia and Somalia to central Kenya.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.

References

External links

[http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=8109&m=0 Species factsheet] - BirdLife International

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