Horned Lark
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Alaudidae
Eremophila
Eremophila alpestris
The only true lark native to North America, the Horned Lark is a common, widespread bird of open country. This small song bird has a pale brown back, a black chest patch, a black face patch, a yellow or pale…
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Lark Belonging to a large family of perching birds, of terrestrial habitats , mainly from the old world and best known through the Skylark . The horned larks are one species native to America. ... When on the ground and they run well and hop. In flight they have a melodious song. The prairie lark and it is a sub species.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on lark (bird), family name Alaudidae, any of about 75 species of a songbird family (order Passeriformes). Larks occur throughout the continental Old World; only the horned, or shore, lark (Eremophila alpestris) is native to the New World. ... For a definition of "lark (bird)",
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The face pattern of the Horned Lark is quite different from other field-loving species. ... Patuxent Bird Population Studies; Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter...
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Only one species of lark is found widely outside the Old World, and it nests on all larger continents (missing in Australia & Antarctica). It is the Horned Lark (right), a bird which is at home in open spaces from the tundra shores of Canada to the open grasslands of the Great Plains to the high meadows of the Andes.
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Section 16: "That holds the shadow of a lark" ... Section 68: "But ere the lark hath left the lea" ... Section 88: "Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet"
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LARK SPARROW; 552. Chondestes grammacus. 6 1/4 inches; These handsome Sparrows are very abundant in the Mississippi Valley; their favorite resorts are fields, pastures, and prairie lands, or along dusty roadsides. ... Bird field guide > Bird identification [S-T] > Sparrow, Lark bird pictures...
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LARK BUNTING; 605. Calamospiza melanocorys. 7 inches; Male, black and white; female, brown and gray. This species is often known as the White-winged Blackbird, not because it bears any resemblance to any of the Blackbirds, nor because any of ... Bird field guide > Bird identification [A-B] > Bunting, Lark bird pictures...
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Prairie Lark-Finch, Text by John James Audubon from Birds of America ... Birds of America ... (State Bird of Colorado) By John James Audubon, F. R. SS. L. & E.
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