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Alternative name: Temminck's Horned Lark

Eremophila bilopha
Photo by rony roshtov

Identification

14-15 cm. Red brown-grey above and pale below, black and white face pattern. The juvenile is reddish above and pale below.

Distribution

Northern Africa from Western Sahara to Egypt, northern Arabian Peninsula and Iraq.

Taxonomy

This species in monotypic1.

Habitat

Desert.

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019

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