This small lark inhabits dry grasslands of southern Africa. It has a compact body, a thick pink bill, and a strongly marked face. It searches for seeds on the ground and is nomadic in parts of its range.
Small and compact, with a strongly marked face and a thick pink bill. Plumage ranges from tawny in the southeast to paler, grayish tones in the northwest.
It occurs in pairs or small groups in eastern grasslands, while some birds are nomadic in the Karoo and Kalahari. It searches for seeds on the ground in dry grassland, savanna, and scrub.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.