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Dunn's lark

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Dunn's lark (Eremalauda dunni) is a small passerine bird of the lark family. [1]

29 relations: Ammomanes, Animal, Arabian Peninsula, Beak, Bird, Bird egg, Bird nest, Bird vocalization, BirdLife International, Cheek, Chordate, Desert, Eremopterix, Galerida, George Ernest Shelley, Handbook of the Birds of the World, Lark, Monotypic taxon, Moulting, Passerine, Plumage, Richard Meinertzhagen, Sahara, Seed predation, Sinai Peninsula, Spizocorys, Stark's lark, Subspecies, Vagrancy (biology).

Ammomanes

Ammomanes is a genus of lark in the Alaudidae family.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula, simplified Arabia (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, ‘Arabian island’ or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب, ‘Island of the Arabs’), is a peninsula of Western Asia situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian plate.

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Beak

The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure of birds that is used for eating and for preening, manipulating objects, killing prey, fighting, probing for food, courtship and feeding young.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bird egg

Bird eggs are laid by the females and incubated for a time that varies according to the species; a single young hatches from each egg.

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Bird nest

A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young.

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Bird vocalization

Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs.

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BirdLife International

BirdLife International (formerly the International Council for Bird Preservation) is a global partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats, and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.

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Cheek

Cheeks (buccae) constitute the area of the face below the eyes and between the nose and the left or right ear.

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Chordate

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

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Desert

A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.

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Eremopterix

Eremopterix is the genus of sparrow-larks, songbirds in the family Alaudidae.

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Galerida

Galerida is a genus of birds in the family Alaudidae.

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George Ernest Shelley

Captain George Ernest Shelley (15 May 1840 – 29 November 1910) was an English geologist and ornithologist.

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Handbook of the Birds of the World

The Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) is a multi-volume series produced by the Spanish publishing house Lynx Edicions in partnership with BirdLife International.

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Lark

Larks are passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.

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Monotypic taxon

In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.

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Moulting

In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is the manner in which an animal routinely casts off a part of its body (often, but not always, an outer layer or covering), either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in its life cycle.

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Passerine

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species.

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Plumage

Plumage ("feather") refers both to the layer of feathers that cover a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers.

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Richard Meinertzhagen

Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, CBE, DSO (3 March 1878 – 17 June 1967) was a British soldier, intelligence officer and ornithologist.

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Sahara

The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى,, 'the Great Desert') is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.

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Seed predation

Seed predation, often referred to as granivory, is a type of plant-animal interaction in which granivores (seed predators) feed on the seeds of plants as a main or exclusive food source,Hulme, P.E. and Benkman, C.W. (2002) "Granivory", pp.

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Sinai Peninsula

The Sinai Peninsula or simply Sinai (now usually) is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia.

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Spizocorys

Spizocorys is a genus of African larks in the Alaudidae family found in southern and eastern Africa.

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Stark's lark

Stark's lark (Spizocorys starki) is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.

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Vagrancy (biology)

Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby individual animals appear well outside their normal range; individual animals which exhibit vagrancy are known as vagrants.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunn's_lark

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