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Ashy-crowned Sparrow-Lark

Eremopterix griseus · Family Alaudidae

Eremopterix griseus

Family Alaudidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Alaudidae
GBIF occurrence records
109,618
Countries and territories with records
5
Ashy-crowned Sparrow-Lark
J.M.Garg · Ashy-crowned Sparrow Lark (Male) I IMG 8244.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · J.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 109,618 occurrence records from 5 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (95.9%) and Sri Lanka (3.2%); together they account for 99.1% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.17% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Eremopterix griseus combines the genus name Eremopterix with the species epithet griseus. The Warbla app catalog lists 8 species of the genus Eremopterix; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Eremopterix verticalis, Eremopterix leucotis and Eremopterix leucopareia.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 76 species of the family Alaudidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Alauda arvensis. Its record count is close to the family average (121,209). The family Alaudidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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