Photo copyright: AS/monacoeye • Do not copy • Images: Amboseli • Oct 2009

Bird name: Red Capped Lark
Latin: Calandrella cinerea
Other:
Family: Alaudidae • Larks

The Red-capped Lark lives in the highlands of sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in the East.More photos...

Photos copyright: monacoeye • Romania • May 2009 • Do not copy without permission

Bird name: Crested Lark
Latin: Galerida cristata
Other: Cochevis huppé
Family: Alaudidae • Larks

Photo: monacoeye • Romania • May 2009

The Crested Lark is not only a slightly comical looking bird but it seems to like nothing better than to dodge the wheels of fast moving traffic on hot European roads.

I stopped my car to take a picture of this one in Romania and observed it for a while playing chicken with oncoming traffic. It doesn't fly very much, preferring to run across the road with those long legs.

Although they're completely unrelated, it's hard not to think "roadrunner" when you see one of these.More photos...

179 Alaudidae - Larks - IOC 2.5 - 2010

Mirafra cantillans - Singing Bush Lark - Widespread Africa, also Arabian Peninsula & India
Mirafra javanica - Horsfield's Bush Lark - Southeast Asia through Australia
Mirafra hova - Madagascar Lark - Madagascar
Mirafra passerina - Monotonous Lark - SC Africa
Mirafra albicauda - White-tailed Lark - C, EC Africa
Mirafra cheniana - Melodious Lark - SE Africa
Mirafra cordofanica - Kordofan Lark - C, WC Africa
Mirafra williamsi - Williams's Lark - N, C Kenya
Mirafra pulpa - Friedmann's Lark - EC Africa
Mirafra africana - Rufous-naped Lark - Widespread Africa
Mirafra hypermetra - Red-winged Lark - EC Africa
Mirafra somalica - Somali Lark - Somalia
Mirafra ashi - Ash's Lark - E Somalia
Mirafra angolensis - Angola Lark - SC Africa
Mirafra rufocinnamomea - Flappet Lark - Widespread Africa
Mirafra apiata - Cape Clapper Lark - SW Namibia, W, SC, S. Africa - new name and range
Mirafra fasciolata - Eastern Clapper Lark - SW Zambia, N, EC Namibia, Botswana, C and E South Africa - split from M.apiata
Mirafra collaris - Collared Lark - E Africa
Mirafra assamica - Bengal Bush Lark - N India
Mirafra affinis - Jerdon's Bush Lark - S India, Sri Lanka
Mirafra microptera - Burmese Bush Lark - C Burma
Mirafra erythrocephala - Indochinese Bush Lark - Southeast Asia
Mirafra rufa - Rusty Bush Lark - C, W Africa
Mirafra gilletti - Gillett's Lark - E Africa - Degodi Lark M.degodiensis is synonym
Mirafra erythroptera - Indian Bush Lark - India, Pakistan

Heteromirafra ruddi - Rudd's Lark - South Africa
Heteromirafra archeri - Archer's Lark - NW Somalia
Heteromirafra sidamoensis - Sidamo Lark - S Ethiopia

Four species of Mirafra larks and four species of Certhilauda larks to the Calendulauda
Calendulauda africanoides - Fawn-colored Lark - SC Africa
Calendulauda alopex - Foxy Lark - EC Africa
Calendulauda poecilosterna - Pink-breasted Lark - NE Africa
Calendulauda sabota - Sabota Lark - S Africa
Calendulauda albescens - Karoo Lark - South Africa
Calendulauda erythrochlamys - Dune Lark - WC Namibia
Calendulauda barlowi - Barlow's Lark - SW Namibia, NW South Africa
Calendulauda burra - Red Lark - C South Africa

Certhilauda benguelensis - Benguela Long-billed Lark - SW Angola, NW Namibia
Certhilauda subcoronata - Karoo Long-billed Lark - SW Africa
Certhilauda semitorquata - Eastern Long-billed Lark - SE Africa
Certhilauda curvirostris - Cape Long-billed Lark - SW Namibia, W South Africa
Certhilauda brevirostris - Agulhas Long-billed Lark - S South Africa
Certhilauda chuana - Short-clawed Lark - SC Africa

Pinarocorys nigricans - Dusky Lark - C, S Africa
Pinarocorys erythropygia - Rufous-rumped Lark - C, W Africa

Chersomanes albofasciata - Spike-heeled Lark - S, SW Africa
Chersomanes beesleyi - Beesley's Lark - NE Tanzania - split from C.albofasciata

Alaemon alaudipes - Greater Hoopoe-Lark - Morocco to Pakistan
Alaemon hamertoni - Lesser Hoopoe-Lark - Somalia

Ramphocoris clotbey - Thick-billed Lark - NW, Africa, also C Arabian Peninsula

Melanocorypha calandra - Calandra Lark - SW, Eurasia, also N Africa
Melanocorypha bimaculata - Bimaculated Lark - SC Eurasia - n India, ne AF
Melanocorypha mongolica - Mongolian Lark - E Eurasia
Melanocorypha maxima - Tibetan Lark - Tibet
Melanocorypha leucoptera - White-winged Lark - C Eurasia
Melanocorypha yeltoniensis - Black Lark - C Eurasia

Ammomanes cinctura - Bar-tailed Lark - Morocco to Pakistan
Ammomanes phoenicura - Rufous-tailed Lark - India, Pakistan
Ammomanes deserti - Desert Lark - Morocco to W India

Ammomanopsis grayi - Gray's Lark - SW Africa - from Ammomanes

Calandrella brachydactyla - Greater Short-toed Lark - C, S Eurasia - AF, India
Calandrella blanfordi - Blanford's Short-toed Lark - NE, Africa, also S Arabian Peninsula
Calandrella erlangeri - Erlanger's Lark - Ethiopia
Calandrella cinerea - Red-capped Lark - S Africa
Calandrella acutirostris - Hume's Short-toed Lark - SC Eurasia - n India
Calandrella raytal - Sand Lark - Pakistan to Burma
Calandrella rufescens - Lesser Short-toed Lark - S, Eurasia, also N Africa
Calandrella cheleensis - Asian Short-toed Lark - SC to E Eurasia
Calandrella somalica - Somali Short-toed Lark - E, NE Africa
Calandrella athensis - Athi Short-toed Lark - E Africa

Spizocorys conirostris - Pink-billed Lark - SC Africa
Spizocorys fringillaris - Botha's Lark - NE South Africa
Spizocorys sclateri - Sclater's Lark - W South Africa, S Namibia
Spizocorys obbiensis - Obbia Lark - C Somalia
Spizocorys personata - Masked Lark - Ethiopia, Kenya
Spizocorys starki - Stark's Lark - SW Africa - from Eremalauda

Eremalauda dunni - Dunn's Lark - C, W, Africa, also C Arabian Peninsula

Chersophilus duponti - Dupont's Lark - N, Africa, also Spain

Pseudalaemon fremantlii - Short-tailed Lark - E, NE Africa

Galerida cristata - Crested Lark - Widespread Eurasia, Africa
Galerida macrorhyncha - Maghreb Lark - E Morocco to N Algeria; Maghreb Desert - split from Crested Lark, note not randonii
Galerida theklae - Thekla Lark - N, E, Africa, also Spain & Portugal - possible species: (hueii, praetermissa and elliotii)
Galerida malabarica - Malabar Lark - W India
Galerida deva - Sykes's Lark - C India
Galerida modesta - Sun Lark - Widespread Africa
Galerida magnirostris - Large-billed Lark - S Africa

Lullula arborea - Woodlark - W, Eurasia, also N Africa

Alauda arvensis - Eurasian Skylark - Widespread Eurasia - to N Africa
Alauda gulgula - Oriental Skylark - Widespread Asia, also C Asia
Alauda razae - Raso Lark - Cape Verde Is

Eremopterix australis - Black-eared Sparrow-Lark - S Africa
Eremopterix leucotis - Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark - Widespread Africa
Eremopterix signatus - Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark - E, NE Africa
Eremopterix verticalis - Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark - S, SC Africa
Eremopterix nigriceps - Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark - Mauritania to NW India
Eremopterix griseus - Ashy-crowned Sparrow-Lark - India, Pakistan
Eremopterix leucopareia - Fischer's Sparrow-Lark - E Africa

Eremophila alpestris - Horned Lark - Widespread North America, Middle America, Eurasia
Eremophila bilopha - Temminck's Lark - N, Africa, also Arabian Peninsula