Showing posts with label Australian Skylark. Show all posts
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Monday, February 23, 2015

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)