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Grey-backed sparrow-lark

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Grey-backed sparrow-lark
Male in Northern Cape, South Africa
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E. verticalis
Binomial name
Eremopterix verticalis
(Smith, 1836)

The grey-backed sparrow-lark (Eremopterix verticalis) is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.

It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.

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