Spike-heeled Lark

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Spike-heeled Lark

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Alaudidae
Genus: Chersomanes
Cabanis, 1851
Species: C. albofasciata
Binomial name
Chersomanes albofasciata
(Lafresnaye, 1836)

The Spike-heeled Lark (Chersomanes albofasciata) is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Chersomanes.

It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Tanzania.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

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