Somali short-toed lark
The Somali short-toed lark is a small passerine bird of the lark family found in eastern and north-eastern Africa.
The habitat of the Somali short-toed lark is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
Taxonomy
The Somali short-toed lark was formally described in 1895 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe based on a specimen collected on the Haud plateau of Somalia by the American explorer Arthur Donaldson Smith. Sharpe coined the binomial name Alaudala somalica. The Somali short-toed lark was formerly sometimes treated as a subspecies of the Mediterranean short-toed lark.Three subspecies are recognised:A. s. perconfusa – northwest SomaliaA. s. somalica Sharpe, 1895 – east Ethiopia and north SomaliaA. s. megaensis – south Ethiopia to central Kenya