Sclater's lark

Sclater's lark
	Sclater's lark (right)
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Alaudidae
Genus:	Spizocorys
Species:	S. sclateri
Binomial name
	Spizocorys sclateri; (Shelley, 1902)
	range
Synonyms
	Calandrella sclateri;

Sclater's lark (Spizocorys sclateri) is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is found in Namibia and South Africa. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Taxonomy and systematics

The common name and the Latin binomial commemorate the British zoologist Philip Lutley Sclater.^[2]

Sclater's Lark was originally placed within the genus Calandrella and some authorities continue to recognize that classification. This species is alternately named as Sclater's short-toed lark.^[3]

References

^ Template:IUCN
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 304.
^ "Spizocorys sclateri - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-12-10.

External links

Species text - The Atlas of Southern African Birds

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[1] Template:IUCN

[2] Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 304.

[3] "Spizocorys sclateri - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-12-10.

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