What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Lark-like Bunting been recorded?

Emberiza impetuani occurrence evidence comes from 113 records in 4 countries and territories, from 1860 to 2025. Most records come from Namibia.

Lark-like Bunting
Lark-like Bunting — Photo (display-sized rendition): Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPasseriformesEmberizidaeEmberiza

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

113 records across 4 countries and territories, 1860–2025.

Emberiza impetuani · GBIF taxon key 2491553

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-08-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: September.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: September. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18602025

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Lark-like Bunting has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Lark-like Bunting. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Namibia 57
South Africa 43
Botswana 8
Zimbabwe 5

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.