SKYLARK

(*   735)                  SKYLARK             Alauda arvensis     

NEW ZEALAND                39

Found in open country from coast to alpine. 18 cm. Common European introduction now found all over New Zealand.

COMMON SKYLARK

Photographed at the Werribee Treatment Plant, Victoria December 2015

735           COMMON SKYLARK          Alauda arvensis

Australia        (578)

Also known as the English Skylark. 17-19 cm. Found in cultivated grassland/crops; wastelands, coastal dunes. Range: se Aust.: introduced from Britain in 1850s; ranges from Yorke Pen. (SA) to Hunter Valley (NSW), inland to c. Macquarie Marshes. Common Tas., Vic., s SA, NSW Riverina. Nomadic, part-migratory.