Singing Bush Lark
UncommonGBIF 27.4·Dongniao Rarity Index8.35
英文名：Singing Bush Lark（学名：Mirafra javanica），是雀形目百灵科的鸟类。12.5–15厘米。比 云雀 更小、更粗壮；尾较短。体色多变：上体沙色、红灰色或微黑；翼羽粗重棕红色羽缘形成强烈图案；胸部常有浓密微黑斑驳。幼鸟：上体具更精细的扇贝形鳞纹。单只、松散群：弯曲双腿敏捷奔跑，或扑翅，双翼半合、以颤抖急促压尾姿态飞翔；翼上棕红色、尾羽白色边缘醒目。停栖在农田、草地上方的篱笆、电话线上。
Singing Bush Lark
12.5-15 cm. Smaller, stockier than Common Skylark; tail shorter. Colour variable: sandy, reddish grey or blackish above; bold rufous margins to wing feathers form strong pattern; often has heavy blackish mottling on breast. Immature: finer scalloped pattern on upperparts. Singles, open flocks: runs nimbly, legs bent, or flutters, wings half-closed in shivery, jerky tail-down manner; rufous in wings, white edges to tail prominent. Perches on fences, telephone-lines over crops, grasslands.
- Other names
- Singing Bushlark; Australian Skylark; Croplark, Australasian Bushlark.
- Similar Species
- Eurasian Skylark, Australasian Pipit.
- Voice
- when disturbed, chirrups. Song: tinny, spasmodic; thinner, less melodious and throbbing than Common Skylark, but carries far. Sings while hovering high, in low undulating flight, or perched on stump, fence, or ground; mimics.
- Habitat
- tropical, temperate grasslands, with rank cover; open woodlands/scrublands; cereal crops, lucerne, sparse sugar cane.
- Breeding
- Sept.-Jan.
- Nest
- flimsily domed cup; in depression.
- Eggs
- 2-4; glossy; greyish stone to whitish; speckled, blotched pale grey, dark brown.
- Range & Status
- n. and e. Aust., w. to Eyre Pen. (SA), s. on w. coast to c. Shark Bay (WA). Summer breeding migrant in se. Aust., although many may overwinter, unnoticed because silent. Vagrant Tas. Uncommon; locally irruptive/abundant. Also PNG to Asia.
- Distribution key to races
- 1. Mirafra javanica woodwardi 2. Mirafra javanica halli 3. Mirafra javanica forresti 4. Mirafra javanica melvillensis 5. Mirafra javanica soderbergi 6. Mirafra javanica rufescens 7. Mirafra javanica athertonensis 8. Mirafra javanica horsfieldii 9. Mirafra javanica secunda
