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Ammomanes deserti · Family Alaudidae
Ammomanes deserti
Family Alaudidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Alaudidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 41,554
- Countries and territories with records
- 40
About this species
This species has 41,554 occurrence records from 40 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Israel (40.6%), the United Arab Emirates (14.8%), Morocco (13.7%), Palestine (4.9%) and Oman (4.5%); together they account for 78.4% of the total. In Israel, this species accounts for 0.25% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Ammomanes deserti combines the genus name Ammomanes with the species epithet deserti. The Warbla app catalog lists 3 species of the genus Ammomanes; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Ammomanes phoenicura and Ammomanes cinctura.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 76 species of the family Alaudidae. This species ranks 16th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Alauda arvensis. Its record count is 34.3% of the family average (121,209). The family Alaudidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.