Sun Lark

When to see the Sun Lark

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Sun Lark

The map shades 13 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Uganda, Togo.

About the Sun Lark

The sun lark or Nigerian sun lark, is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae. Its range extends mainly across the Sudan region, from Guinea to South Sudan. Its natural habitats are dry savannah and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.

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Easily confused with

Sykes's LarkGalerida devaSykes's lark is a species of lark found in the dry open country of India. Malabar LarkGalerida malabaricaThis is a smallish lark, slightly smaller than the Eurasian skylark. Large-billed LarkGalerida magnirostrisThe large-billed lark is 18 cm in length.