| Thick-billed lark | |
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| Near Douz, Kébili, Tunisia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Alaudidae |
| Genus: | Ramphocoris Bonaparte, 1850 |
| Species: | R. clotbey |
| Binomial name | |
| Ramphocoris clotbey (Bonaparte, 1850) | |
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The thick-billed lark (Ramphocoris clotbey) or Clotbey lark is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae. [2]
It was named after Antoine Clot. It was originally described as belonging to the genus Melanocorypha and is now placed in the monotypic genus Ramphocoris. [3]
It is found in northern Africa from Mauritania and Morocco to Libya, also in central regions of the Arabian Peninsula. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and hot deserts.
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