Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark

When to see the Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark

The map shades 6 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Grey-backed Sparrow-Lark

The grey-backed sparrow-lark or grey-backed finch-lark is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae. It is found in southern and south-central Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. Sometimes, the name 'grey-backed sparrow-lark' is also used to describe the black-eared sparrow-lark.

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Easily confused with

Chestnut-backed Sparrow-LarkEremopterix leucotisThis is a small lark at 11 cm. Fischer's Sparrow-LarkEremopterix leucopareiaFischer's sparrow-lark or Fischer's finch-lark is a species of passerine bird in the family Alaudidae. Black-crowned Sparrow-LarkEremopterix nigricepsThe adult males has a bold pied head pattern with a mainly blackhead with contrasting white forehead and white cheek patches.