Alauda, the Glossary
Alauda is a genus of larks found across much of Europe, Asia and in the mountains of north Africa, and one of the species (the Raso lark) endemic to the islet of Raso in the Cape Verde Islands.[1]
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50 relations: Ashy-crowned sparrow-lark, Bar-tailed lark, Bimaculated lark, Black lark, Botha's lark, Calandra lark, Cape clapper lark, Cape long-billed lark, Cape Verde, Carl Linnaeus, Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark, Crested lark, Desert lark, Dune lark, Dupont's lark, Dusky lark, Eastern clapper lark, Endemism, Eurasian skylark, Genus, Gray's lark, Greater hoopoe-lark, Greater short-toed lark, Horned lark, Ilhéu Raso, Karoo lark, Large-billed lark, Lark, Malabar lark, Mediterranean short-toed lark, Mongolian lark, Mongolian short-toed lark, Oriental skylark, Pink-billed lark, Pink-breasted lark, Pliny the Elder, Raso lark, Red-capped lark, Rufous-rumped lark, Sabota lark, Sand lark, Short-clawed lark, Sykes's lark, Systema Naturae, Temminck's lark, Type species, Varshets, White-winged lark, Woodlark, 10th edition of Systema Naturae.
Ashy-crowned sparrow-lark
The ashy-crowned sparrow-lark (Eremopterix griseus) is a small sparrow-sized member of the lark family.
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Bar-tailed lark
The bar-tailed lark or bar-tailed desert lark (Ammomanes cinctura) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae.
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Bimaculated lark
The bimaculated lark (Melanocorypha bimaculata) breeds in warm temperate countries eastwards from Turkey into Central Asia.
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Black lark
The black lark (Melanocorypha yeltoniensis) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found in south-eastern Russia and Kazakhstan.
Botha's lark
Botha's lark (Spizocorys fringillaris) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae.
Calandra lark
The calandra lark (Melanocorypha calandra) or European calandra-lark breeds in warm temperate countries around the Mediterranean and eastwards through Turkey into northern Iran and southern Russia.
Cape clapper lark
The Cape clapper lark (Mirafra apiata) is a small passerine bird which breeds in southern Africa.
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Cape long-billed lark
The Cape long-billed lark (Certhilauda curvirostris), also known as the Cape lark, Cape longbill or long-billed lark is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae.
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Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about.
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark
The chestnut-backed sparrow-lark (Eremopterix leucotis) is a passerine bird which is a resident breeder in Africa south of the Sahara Desert.
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Crested lark
The crested lark (Galerida cristata) is a species of lark widespread across Eurasia and northern Africa.
Desert lark
The desert lark (Ammomanes deserti) breeds in deserts and semi-deserts from Morocco to western India.
Dune lark
The dune lark (Calendulauda erythrochlamys) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae.
Dupont's lark
Dupont's lark (Chersophilus duponti) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae of the monotypic genus Chersophilus.
Dusky lark
The dusky lark (Pinarocorys nigricans), also known as the dusky bush lark or rufous-rumped bush lark, is a species of migratory lark in the family Alaudidae.
Eastern clapper lark
The eastern clapper lark (Mirafra fasciolata) is a small passerine bird which breeds in southern Africa.
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
Eurasian skylark
The Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis) is a passerine bird in the lark family, Alaudidae.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
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Gray's lark
Gray's lark (Ammomanopsis grayi) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae.
Greater hoopoe-lark
The greater hoopoe-lark (Alaemon alaudipes) is a passerine bird which is a breeding resident of arid, desert and semi-desert regions from the Cape Verde Islands across much of northern Africa, through the Arabian peninsula, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
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Greater short-toed lark
The greater short-toed lark (Calandrella brachydactyla) is a small passerine bird.
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Horned lark
The horned lark or shore lark (Eremophila alpestris) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found across the northern hemisphere.
Ilhéu Raso
Ilhéu Raso is an uninhabited, Estratégia e Plano Nacional de Negócios das Áreas Protegidas volcanic island in the Barlavento archipelago of Cape Verde.
Karoo lark
The Karoo lark should not be confused with the similarly named Karoo long-billed lark. The Karoo lark (Calendulauda albescens) or red-backed lark is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae.
Large-billed lark
The large-billed lark or southern thick-billed lark (Galerida magnirostris) is a small passerine bird found in southern Africa.
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Lark
Larks are passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
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Malabar lark
The Malabar lark, or Malabar crested lark (Galerida malabarica) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found in western India.
Mediterranean short-toed lark
The Mediterranean short-toed lark (Alaudala rufescens) is a small passerine bird found in and around the Mediterranean Basin.
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Mongolian lark
The Mongolian lark (Melanocorypha mongolica) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found from southern Russia and Mongolia to central China.
Mongolian short-toed lark
The Mongolian short-toed lark or Sykes's short-toed lark (Calandrella dukhunensis) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae.
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Oriental skylark
The Oriental skylark (Alauda gulgula), also known as the small skylark, is a species of skylark found in the Sino-Indian region and parts of central Asia.
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Pink-billed lark
The pink-billed lark (Spizocorys conirostris) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found in southern Africa.
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Pink-breasted lark
The pink-breasted lark (Calendulauda poecilosterna) or pink-breasted bushlark is a species of passerine bird in the family Alaudidae.
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Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
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Raso lark
The Raso lark (Alauda razae) is a small passerine bird with a highly restricted range, being found only on Raso islet in the Cape Verde Islands.
Red-capped lark
The red-capped lark (Calandrella cinerea) is a small passerine bird that breeds in the highlands of eastern Africa southwards from Ethiopia and Somaliland.
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Rufous-rumped lark
The rufous-rumped lark (Pinarocorys erythropygia) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae.
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Sabota lark
The sabota lark (Calendulauda sabota) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae.
Sand lark
The sand lark (Alaudala raytal) is a small passerine bird in the lark family, Alaudidae, found in southern Asia.
Short-clawed lark
The short-clawed lark (Certhilauda chuana) or short-clawed bush-lark, is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae.
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Sykes's lark
Sykes's lark (Galerida deva) is a species of lark found in the dry open country of India.
Systema Naturae
(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.
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Temminck's lark
Temminck's lark (Eremophila bilopha) or Temminck's horned lark, is a bird species of the family Alaudidae.
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Type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).
Varshets
Varshets (Вършец, variously transliterated) is a spa town in Montana Province, northwestern Bulgaria.
White-winged lark
The white-winged lark (Alauda leucoptera) is a species of lark found from southern Ukraine through Kazakhstan to south-central Russia.
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Woodlark
The woodlark or wood lark (Lullula arborea) is the only extant species in the lark genus Lullula.
10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alauda
Also known as Skylark.