Thick-billed lark
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Alaudidae |
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Ramphocoris Bonaparte, 1850 |
| Species: | R. clotbey |
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Ramphocoris clotbey (Bonaparte, 1850) |
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The thick-billed lark (Ramphocoris clotbey) or Clotbey lark is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae.
It was named after Antoine Clot. It was originally described as belonging to the genus Melanocorypha and is now placed in the monotypic genus Ramphocoris.
It is found in northern Africa from Mauritania and Morocco to Libya, also in central regions of the Arabian Peninsula. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and hot deserts.
Adult, Saudi Arabia 1993
Eggs of Ramphocoris clotbey MHNT
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