Hume's short-toed lark
| Hume's short-toed lark | |
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| From Laxman chowk, close to Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary, Sikkim, India | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Alaudidae |
| Genus: | Calandrella |
| Species: | C. acutirostris |
| Binomial name | |
| Calandrella acutirostris Hume, 1873 | |
The Hume's short-toed lark or Hume's lark (Calandrella acutirostris) is a species of lark in the Alaudidae family. It is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.
The name commemorates the British naturalist Allan Octavian Hume who described the species.[2]
Description
The Hume's short-toed lark is similar in size and appearance to the greater short-toed lark (Calandrella brachydactyla) but is generally a duller-looking bird with slightly darker plumage and a slightly smaller beak. As with C. brachydactyla, the colour varies across the broad range and is not a good distinguishing feature. The Hume's short-toed lark grows to a length of from 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) and the sexes are similar. The crown is brown with slight diffuse streaking, the cheeks are rufous-brown and the supercilium white. The upper parts are greyish-brown or sandy brown with darker streaking, and the upper tail coverts are washed with rufous-brown. The wings are greyish-brown with black barring and pale tips to the feathers. The underparts are mostly whitish, but there is a dark neck patch and a buffish-grey breast band. The breast is unstreaked. The voice helps distinguish this species; vocalisations include a shrill "trree" and a more rolling "drreep.[3]
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Calandrella acutirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 173–174.
- ↑ Mark Beaman; Steve Madge (1998). The Handbook of Bird Identification: For Europe and the Western Palearctic. Christopher Helm. p. 547. ISBN 978-0-7136-3960-5.
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External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Calandrella acutirostris. |
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Wikispecies has information related to: Calandrella acutirostris |
- BirdLife species factsheet for Calandrella acutirostris
- "Calandrella acutirostris". Avibase.
- "Hume's lark media". Internet Bird Collection.
- Hume's lark photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
- Interactive range map of Calandrella acutirostris at IUCN Red List maps
- Audio recordings of Hume's short-toed lark on Xeno-canto.