JERDON’S BUSHLARK

Subspecies ceylonensis, photographed March 2017

1062                          JERDON’S BUSHLARK                Mirafra affinis

SRI LANKA                34

Found in open country. 15 cm. Fairly common breeding resident dry lowlands; rare and local in wet lowlands.

HORSFIELD'S BUSHLARK

Photographed at night, at Deniliquin NSW, February 2015

516       HORSFIELD'S BUSHLARK          Mirafra javanica

Australia         (357)

Also known as Australian Skylark, Singing Bushlark or Croplark.  12.5 -15 cm. Found in tropical, temperate grasslands, with rank cover; open woodlands/scrublands; cereal crops, lucerne, sparse sugar cane. Ranges across n. and e. Australian mainland, w. to Eyre Pen. (SA), s. and w. coast to c. Shark Bay(WA)