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Passeriformes / Alaudidae / Galerida

Sun Lark

Galerida modesta

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (sunlar1) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

Taxonomy

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Alaudidae
Genus: Galerida

Subspecies (4)

Galerida modesta bucolica

northern Democratic Republic of the Congo to western Uganda
Galerida modesta modesta

Burkina Faso to northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, Chad, and western Sudan
Galerida modesta nigrita

Senegambia to Sierra Leone and Mali
Galerida modesta struempelli

Cameroon (Foumban, Tibati, and Ngaoundéré)

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (sunlar1) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.