Larks

Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark

Eremopterix signatus

The Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark (Eremopterix signatus) is a 16 g grassland bird that eats mostly seeds. Some populations migrate.

Family

Larks

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

16 g

Habitat

Grassland

Diet

Plants and seeds

Migration

Partial migrant

Countries recorded

4

Recorded in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, S. Sudan.

Where to see it: Auto selected 5.28882, 35.82904 (South Sudan); Awash NP · southern section (Ethiopia); Awash NP (Please use more specific hotspot) (Ethiopia); Samburu NR (General - please use more specific hotspot if possible) (Kenya); CCF Somaliland (Somalia).

Photo: (c) Claude Kolwelter, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist