Sidamo Lark

Taxobox
name = Sidamo Lark


status = EN
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Alaudidae
genus = "Heteromirafra"
species = "H. sidamoensis"
binomial = "Heteromirafra sidamoensis"
binomial_authority = Erard, 1975
synonyms =

The Sidamo Lark ("Heteromirafra sidamoensis") is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is endemic to Ethiopia.

Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss and unlike previously believed its population is declining. Thus, it is uplisted again to Endangered in the 2007 IUCN Red List from the Vulnerable status it held since 2000. [See BirdLife International (2004 2007a,b).]

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References

*|year=2004|id=10000|title=Heteromirafra sidamoensis|downloaded=24 July 2007
* (2007a): [ [http://www.birdlife.org/action/science/species/global_species_programme/whats_new.html 2006-2007 Red List status changes] ] . Retrieved 2007-AUG-26.
* (2007b): [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/search/species_search.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=8123&m=0 Sidamo Lark - BirdLife Species Factsheet] . Retrieved 2007-AUG-26.