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Certhilauda curvirostris (Cape Long-billed Lark)

Synonyms: Alauda curvirostris (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Cape long-billed lark (Certhilauda curvirostris), also known as the Cape lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is found in southwestern Southern Africa. Its natural habitats are semi-arid Karoo shrub and subtropical dry shrubland and subtropical or dry lowland and highveld grassland. This lark is also found in croplands, farmlands and coastal fynbos.
View Wikipedia Record: Certhilauda curvirostris

Infraspecies

Certhilauda curvirostris curvirostris
Certhilauda curvirostris falcirostris

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
18
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.11476
EDGE Score: 1.96217
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  42 grams
Birth Weight [2]  3.4 grams
Female Weight [4]  24 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  80 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  20 %
Forages - Understory [3]  20 %
Forages - Ground [3]  80 %
Clutch Size [5]  2

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Lowland fynbos and renosterveld South Africa Afrotropic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Montane fynbos and renosterveld South Africa Afrotropic Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Succulent Karoo Namibia, South Africa Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Orange river mouth wetlands South Africa A1, A3, A4i, A4iii
Sperrgebiet Namibia A1, A2, A3, A4i
Verlorenvlei South Africa A4i
West Coast National Park and Saldanha Bay islands South Africa A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Cape Floristic Region South Africa No
Succulent Karoo Namibia, South Africa No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Dean, WRJ 2000. The Birds of Angola: An Annotated Checklist. BOU Checklist No. 18. Tring, UK: British Ornithologists' Union
♦ 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
♦ 4Nathan 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
♦ 5Jetz 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
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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