Pink-breasted Lark (Calendulauda poecilosterna) | Photos, Calls and ID

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GrasslandDomed nestSmall · 25 g

Pink-breasted Lark (Calendulauda poecilosterna), photo 1 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Pink-breasted Lark (Calendulauda poecilosterna), photo 2 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Pink-breasted Lark (Calendulauda poecilosterna), photo 5 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Pink-breasted Lark (Calendulauda poecilosterna), photo 6 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Pink-breasted Lark (Calendulauda poecilosterna), photo 7 — Photo: avocat · CC BY 4.0

Pink-breasted Lark (Calendulauda poecilosterna), photo 10 — Photo: (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Pink-breasted Lark sounds like

Sonogram of the Pink-breasted Lark: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Kileo Jumah · Song · Mererani,Kudu hills, Arusha Region, Tanzania · CC0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Pink-breasted Lark

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Pink-breasted Lark

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Kenya Tanzania Ethiopia

Recorded as a rare visitor in Somalia.

About the Pink-breasted Lark

The pink-breasted lark or pink-breasted bushlark is a species of passerine bird in the family Alaudidae.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Dune LarkCalendulauda erythrochlamysThe dune lark is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae.

Red LarkCalendulauda burraThe red lark, also known as the ferruginous lark or ferruginous sand-lark, is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae.

Gillett's LarkCalendulauda gillettiGillett's lark or Gillett's bushlark is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found in eastern Africa.

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