Scientific name: Chersomanes albofasciata
The spike-heeled lark (Chersomanes albofasciata) is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.
It mainly eats invertebrates and seeds, doing most of its foraging in the ground, plucking food from the soil surface or from the bases of grasses and forbs. It often looks for food around rodent burrows, and it may even take prey aerially or from the leaves of shrubs.
