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Spizocorys fringillaris (Botha's Lark)

Synonyms: Alauda fringillaris

Wikipedia Abstract

Botha's lark (Spizocorys fringillaris) is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is endemic to South Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland and pastureland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Spizocorys fringillaris

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Spizocorys fringillaris

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
50
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.58286
EDGE Score: 3.96391
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  19.5 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  50 %
Forages - Understory [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  80 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Incubation [3]  13 days

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Highveld grasslands South Africa Afrotropic Montane Grasslands and Shrublands

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Alexpan South Africa A1
Amersfoort: Bethal: Carolina District South Africa A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4ii
Grassland Biosphere Reserve (proposed) South Africa A1, A2, A3, A4i, A4ii, A4iii
Sterkfontein/Merinodal South Africa A1, A2, A3, A4i
Voordeel Conservancy South Africa A1, A2, A3

Range Map

External References

Citations

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
♦ 3 Habitat use, distribution and breeding ecology of the globally threatened Rudd's Lark and Botha's Lark in eastern South Africa, David H Maphisa, Paul F Donald, Graeme M Buchanan, Peter G Ryan, Ostrich Vol. 80, Iss. 1, 2009
♦ 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
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