This southern African endemic enters the extreme south of Namibia from across the Orange River in South Africa. There are only a few scattered records from Namibia and, because of its close resemblance to the Eastern Clapper Lark M. fasciolata, the latter being common in Namibia, the possibility of misidentification cannot be ruled out. There is a small, seemingly semi-isolated population of Cape Clapper Larks in the area of Pofadder-Aggeneys-Pella in the northern Cape, which extends north to the Orange River, but as the Namibian side is largely inaccessible, it has not been surveyed.