Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Alaudidae > Galerida > Galerida modestaGalerida modesta (Sun Lark)The sun lark (Galerida modesta) is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savannah and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.84398 EDGE Score: 1.76541 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 20 grams | | Female Weight [1] | 18 grams | | Male Weight [1] | 22 grams | | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 22.2 % |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 50 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 1 |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Cameroonian Highlands forests |
Cameroon, Nigeria |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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East Sudanian savanna |
Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Guinean forest-savanna mosaic |
Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Guinean montane forests |
Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Mandara Plateau mosaic |
Cameroon, Nigeria |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets |
Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic |
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Saharan flooded grasslands |
Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Sahelian Acacia savanna |
Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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West Sudanian savanna |
Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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'W' National Park |
Niger |
A1, A3 |
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Amurum woodlands (Taboru) |
Nigeria |
A3 |
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Arli: W: Singou complex |
Burkina Faso |
A3, A4ii |
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Ashana |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Assop Falls and hills |
Nigeria |
A3 |
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Balandougou |
Guinea |
A3 |
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Bamingui-Bangoran National Park complex |
Central African Republic |
A3 |
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Bandingilo |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Bénoué National Park |
Cameroon |
A3 |
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Bozoum |
Central African Republic |
A3 |
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Chutes de la Sala |
Guinea |
A1, A3 |
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Comoe National Park |
C |
A3 |
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Digya National Park |
Ghana |
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Dulombi |
Guinea-Bissau |
A3 |
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Falaise de Bandiagara |
Mali |
A3 |
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Falgore and Lame Burra Game Reserves |
Nigeria |
A3 |
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Garamba National Park |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the |
A3 |
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Gashiga: Demsa |
Cameroon |
A3 |
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Grandes Chutes |
Guinea |
A1, A3 |
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Imatong mountains |
Sudan |
A1, A3 |
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Juba |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Kabitaï |
Guinea |
A3 |
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Kaboré Tambi: Nazinga: Sissili complex |
Burkina Faso |
A3 |
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Kagoro: Nindam Forest Reserves |
Nigeria |
A3 |
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Kiang West National Park |
Gambia |
A3 |
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La Petite Côte |
Senegal |
A1, A4i |
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Mafou |
Guinea |
A3 |
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Makalondi district |
Niger |
A3 |
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Manovo: Gounda: St Floris National Park complex |
Central African Republic |
A3 |
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Marahoue National Park |
C |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mayo-Louti Forest Reserve |
Cameroon |
A3 |
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Mount Oku |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Ngaoundaba Ranch |
Cameroon |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Nimule |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Oti Valley Faunal Reserve |
Togo |
A3 |
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Parc National du Niokolo-Koba |
Senegal |
A3 |
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Southern National Park |
Sudan |
A3 |
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Sudd (Bahr-el-Jebel system) |
Sudan |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Zakouma National Park |
Chad |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Zémongo Faunal Reserve |
Central African Republic |
A3 |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Guinean Forests of West Africa |
Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo |
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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 ♦ 2Hamish 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 ♦ 3Jetz 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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