Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Alaudidae > Calendulauda > Calendulauda albescensCalendulauda albescens (Karoo Lark)Synonyms: Certhilauda albescens The Karoo lark (Calendulauda albescens) is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is endemic to South Africa where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 7.93869 EDGE Score: 2.19039 |
Adult Weight [1] | 29 grams | Birth Weight [2] | 2.6 grams | Female Weight [1] | 25 grams | Male Weight [1] | 33 grams | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 32 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [3] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore | Diet - Fruit [3] | 10 % | Diet - Invertibrates [3] | 60 % | Diet - Plants [3] | 10 % | Diet - Seeds [3] | 20 % | Forages - Understory [3] | 30 % | Forages - Ground [3] | 70 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [4] | 3 |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Anysberg Nature Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Augrabies Falls National Park |
South Africa |
A3 |
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Cedarberg: Koue Bokkeveld complex |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Karoo National Park |
South Africa |
A1, A3, A4ii |
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Lower Berg river wetlands |
South Africa |
A4i, A4iii |
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Olifants river estuary |
South Africa |
A3, A4i |
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Platberg-Karoo Conservancy |
South Africa |
A1, A3, A4i, A4ii |
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Southern Langeberg mountains |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Swartberg mountains |
South Africa |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Verlorenvlei |
South Africa |
A4i |
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West Coast National Park and Saldanha Bay islands |
South Africa |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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