Spike-heeled Lark | |
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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.