Showing posts with label Cinclohamphus cruralis. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

BROWN SONGLARK

Photographed on the highway south of Broome, Western Australia May 2015
591           BROWN SONGLARK               Cinclohamphus cruralis

Australia              (434)

Male 24-26 cm; female 18-19 cm. Found in pastures, cereal crops; in inland, open grassy country, saltbush etc. Range: mainland Australia, mainly s. of Tropic and inland Gt Divide: reaches coasts in ce. Q, w. Vic, SA, most of WA s. of Broome. Highly nomadic.