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Mirafra rufa (Rusty Bush Lark)

Synonyms: Calendulauda rufa (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The rusty bush lark (Mirafra rufa), also known as the rusty lark is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.
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Infraspecies

Mirafra rufa lynesi
Mirafra rufa nigriticola
Mirafra rufa rufa

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
19
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.18458
EDGE Score: 1.97194
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Attributes

Diet [1]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [1]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [1]  50 %
Forages - Ground [1]  100 %

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
East Saharan montane xeric woodlands Chad, Sudan Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Lake Chad flooded savanna Nigeria, Chad, Niger Afrotropic Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Sahelian Acacia savanna Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
En Nahud Sudan A1, A3
Ouadi Rimé: Ouadi Achim Chad A1, A3

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Hamish 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
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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