| Degodi Lark | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Alaudidae |
| Genus: | Mirafra |
| Species: | M. degodiensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Mirafra degodiensis Erard, 1975 |
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The Degodi Lark (Mirafra degodiensis) is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family endemic to Ethiopia.
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A small (14 cm long), slender lark, with abundant streaking, very similar to a pipit, Anthus. Markings on breast faint on light, buff underbelly. Voice is a 4-6-note trill; twill-ill-ill-ill-ill, and shorter tsee-tsee.[1]
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It eats caterpillars and small orthopterans and is found among low Acacia bushes on bare soil, with scattered Commiphora bushes and other species. Often seen using bushes for perches. It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]
We have, at present no more than a rough sketch of Mirafra degodiensis, gleened from infrequently gathered facts. This, as well, goes for its population and range, but it is believed to have a very small population. Its known range covers about 400 square km, possibly up to 2,000 square km. Seen most reliably east of Bogol Manya, Ethiopia.[1]
In 2009 the IUCN treated Mirafra degodiensis as a synonym of Mirafra gilletti (Gillett's Lark), which it assessed as Least Concern.[2]