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Horned Lark
Eremophila alpestris · Family Alaudidae
Eremophila alpestris
Family Alaudidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Alaudidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 2,067,397
- Countries and territories with records
- 88
About this species
This species has 2,067,397 occurrence records from 88 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (78.2%), Canada (14.1%), Sweden (1.5%) and the Netherlands (1.2%); together they account for 94.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.15% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Eremophila alpestris combines the genus name Eremophila with the species epithet alpestris. The Warbla app catalog lists one other species of the genus Eremophila: Eremophila bilopha.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 76 species of the family Alaudidae. This species ranks 2nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Alauda arvensis. Its record count is 17.1 times the family average (121,209). The family Alaudidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.