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Barnes, K. N. 1998. The Important Bird Areas of southern Africa. BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg.
Barnes, K. N.; Tarboton, W. R. 1998. Important Bird Areas of Mpumalanga. In: Barnes, K.N. (ed.), The Important Bird Areas of southern Africa, pp. 65-86. BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg.
Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Şekercioğlu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.
Gush, W. G. 2017. The decline of the globally threatened Rudd’s Lark in one of its last remaining core sites, the Wakkerstroom grasslands. Minor dissertation in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Conservation Biology. Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town.
Hockey, P. A. R.; Allan, D. G.; Rebelo, A. G.; Dean, W. R. J. 1988. The distribution, habitat requirements and conservation status of Rudd's Lark Heteromirafra ruddi in South Africa. Biological Conservation 45: 255-266.
Huntley, B. and Barnard, P. 2012. Potential impacts of climatic change on southern African birds of fynbos and grassland biodiversity hotspots. Diversity and Distributions 18: 769-781.
IUCN. 2021. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-3. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 09 December 2021).
Lee, A.; Barnard, P.; Altwegg, R. 2017. Estimating conservation metrics from atlas data: the case of southern African endemic birds. Bird Conservation International 27(3): 323-336.
Maphisa, D. H. 2015. Towards adaptive management of high-altitude grasslands: Ingula as a case study. PhD Thesis. University of Cape Town.
Maphisa, D. H.; Donald, P. F.; Buchanan, G. M.; Ryan, P. G. 2009. Habitat use, distribution and breeding ecology of the globally threatened Rudd's Lark and Botha's Lark in eastern South Africa. Ostrich 80(1): 19-28.
Maphisa, D.H. 2004. Habitat selection and breeding biology of Rudd's Lark Heteromirafra ruddi: implications for conservation. Thesis. MSc, University of Cape Town.
Peacock, F. 2015. Rudd's Lark Heteromirafra ruddi. In: Taylor, M. R.; Peacock, F.; Wanless, R. M. (ed.), The 2015 Eskom Red Data Book of Birds of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, pp. 136-139. BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Siegfried, W. R. 1992. Conservation status of the South African endemic avifauna. South African Journal of Wildlife Research 22: 61-64.
Verdoorn, G. 2008. BLSA fights threat to Wakkerstroom. Africa - Birds & Birding 13(2): 74.
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BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Rudd's Lark Heteromirafra ruddi. Downloaded from
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Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/12/2024.