ASHY-CROWNED SPARROW LARK

March 2017

1121        ASHY-CROWNED SPARROW LARK               Eremopterix griseus

SRI LANKA            149

Also called Ashy-crowned Finch Lark. Found in open areas. 12 cm. Locally, fairly common breeding resident in dry lowlands, visits wet zone, and rarely hills.

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.

SAND LARK

Kochi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal March 2017

1017                SAND LARK                Calandrella raytal

NEPAL              86

Found on banks of lakes and rivers. 12 cm. Locally common resident, mainly along south.

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)

STRIATED FIELDWREN

Photographed near Boobyalia, ne Tasmania, January 2015

485             STRIATED FIEDWREN              Calamanthus fuliginosus

Australia           (326)

Also known as Cocktail, Fieldwork, Reedlark and Sandplain-wren. 12.5-14 cm. Range along coastal se Australia from nw of Sydney to Lake Alexandria in SA; also across Tasmania. Found in low shrubs, tussocks, swamp-fringes, salt marshes; alpine, coastal heaths; dune vegetation.

Photographed on west coast Tasmania, January 2015

SABOTA LARK

465           SABOTA LARK             Calendulauda sabota

South Africa            (123)

Found in dry savannah, moist savannah and subtropical or tropical shrubland. 15 cm. Near endemic to Southern Africa.