Desert Lark

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Alaudidae

Genus

Ammomanes

eBird Code

deslar1

Subspecies (22)

• Ammomanes deserti akeleyi

  highlands of northern Somalia

• Ammomanes deserti algeriensis

  northern Algeria to Tunisia and northwestern Libya

• Ammomanes deserti annae

  black lava desert of Jordan (Azraq area) and far southern Syria

• Ammomanes deserti assabensis

  southern Eritrea, Ethiopia, and northwestern Somalia

• Ammomanes deserti azizi

  northeastern Saudi Arabia (Al Hufuf area)

• Ammomanes deserti cheesmani

  Iraq (east of Tigris River) to western Iran (west of Zagros Mountains to Persian Gulf)

• Ammomanes deserti deserti

  eastern Egypt (east of Nile to Red Sea) southward to Sudan

• Ammomanes deserti erythrochroa

  western Chad (Ndjamena) to northern Sudan (Dongola to Kordofan)

• Ammomanes deserti geyri

  Mauritania to southern Algeria and northwestern Niger (Aïr Massif)

• Ammomanes deserti insularis

  Bahrain (Persian Gulf)

• Ammomanes deserti iranica

  central, southern, and eastern Iran (including the southern Zagros Mountains) eastward to southwestern Afghanistan and western Pakistan (Baluchistan)

• Ammomanes deserti isabellina

  northern Egypt (west of the Nile Valley) eastward to Israel, Jordan, Syria, southern Türkiye (Birecik), northwestern Saudia Arabia, and Iraq (west of the Tigris River)

• Ammomanes deserti kollmannspergeri

  northeastern Chad (Ennedi Mountains) and western Sudan (Darfur)

• Ammomanes deserti mya

  central Algerian Sahara (between 27°N and 30°N)

• Ammomanes deserti orientalis

  northeastern Iran (northern Khorasan), southeastern Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, southern Tajikistan, and northern Afghanistan

• Ammomanes deserti parvirostris

  western Turkmenistan (Kara-Bogaz-Gol to Kopet Dagh and Atrak Basin)

• Ammomanes deserti payni

  Morocco south of the High Atlas and adjacent southwestern Algeria

• Ammomanes deserti phoenicuroides

  southeastern Afghanistan, eastern Pakistan, and northwestern India (far western Rajasthan)

• Ammomanes deserti samharensis

  Red Sea coast of eastern Sudan, Eritrea, and Arabia Peninsula (southward to northern Yemen)

• Ammomanes deserti saturata

  black lava desert of southern Arabia (northern Hijaz to Aden)

• Ammomanes deserti taimuri

  Oman (Muscat area)

• Ammomanes deserti whitakeri

  southeastern Algeria to southwestern Libya and northwestern Chad (Tibesti Mountains)