Population
The population is estimated to be a number from 50-250 mature individuals, based on a lack of confirmed sightings since 1955, despite over 15 searches having been conducted in the past 40 years throughout Somalia and Ethiopia. Since its initial discovery in 1922, the Archer’s Lark is reported to have a range of only two square kilometers in Somalia, although this scope suggests a high density of the bird which has not been located. This is attributed to subsequent changes in the local habitat at the species’s originally cited area . One of the last possible sightings of this bird was in Ethiopia in 2003. The species was officially declared Critically Endangered in 2005, although because of its elusiveness, no conversation efforts have been made to save this species.
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