Sand Lark - Revision history

AlexC at 20:26, 12 November 2008

2008-11-12T20:26:40Z

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	[[Image:Indian_Short-toed_Lark.jpg\|thumb\|550px\|right\|Photo by {{user\|Seyed+Babak+Mus\|Seyed Babak Mus}}<br />Location: Near the shore in Soorgalm Creek]]		[[Image:Indian_Short-toed_Lark.jpg\|thumb\|550px\|right\|Photo by {{user\|Seyed+Babak+Mus\|Seyed Babak Mus}}<br />Location: Near the shore in Soorgalm Creek]]
		+	'''Alternative name: Indian Short-toed Lark'''
	;[[:Category:Calandrella\|Calandrella]] raytal		;[[:Category:Calandrella\|Calandrella]] raytal
	==Identification==		==Identification==

AlexC: Indian Short-toed Lark moved to Sand Lark

2008-11-12T20:03:58Z

Indian Short-toed Lark moved to Sand Lark

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AlexC at 20:01, 12 November 2008

2008-11-12T20:01:14Z

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-	;Calandrella raytal	+	[[Image:Indian_Short-toed_Lark.jpg\|thumb\|550px\|right\|Photo by {{user\|Seyed+Babak+Mus\|Seyed Babak Mus}}<br />Location: Near the shore in Soorgalm Creek]]
-	[[Image:Indian_Short-toed_Lark.jpg\|thumb\|550px\|right\|Photo by Seyed Babak Mus <br/> Location: near to shore in Soorgalm creek]]	+	;[[:Category:Calandrella\|Calandrella]] raytal
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	==Identification==		==Identification==
	13cm. Greyish sandy, with dark brown streaks, from above, while the belly is white, sparsely and indistinctly dark-streaked on the sides. Supercilium and cheeks are white. Shortish black and white tail. Sexes alike.		13cm. Greyish sandy, with dark brown streaks, from above, while the belly is white, sparsely and indistinctly dark-streaked on the sides. Supercilium and cheeks are white. Shortish black and white tail. Sexes alike.
	==Distribution==		==Distribution==
-	[[India]]	+	[[India]].
	==Taxonomy==		==Taxonomy==
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	==Habitat==		==Habitat==
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	==Behaviour==		==Behaviour==
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	Diet includes weed, seeds and insects.		Diet includes weed, seeds and insects.

	Nesting Season: February to May. Nest: A cup like depression in the ground at the base of a shrub, lined with grass, hair, etc. Eggs: 3, sometimes 2. Yellowish or greyish white, freckled with brown. Both sexes share domestic chores.		Nesting Season: February to May. Nest: A cup like depression in the ground at the base of a shrub, lined with grass, hair, etc. Eggs: 3, sometimes 2. Yellowish or greyish white, freckled with brown. Both sexes share domestic chores.
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	==External Links==		==External Links==
	{{GSearch\|Calandrella+raytal}}		{{GSearch\|Calandrella+raytal}}
-	[[Category:Birds]]	+	[[Category:Birds]][[Category:Calandrella]]

Kits at 16:32, 3 October 2007

2007-10-03T16:32:00Z

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	;Calandrella raytal		;Calandrella raytal
-	[[Image:Indian_Short-toed_Lark.jpg\|thumb\|550px\|right\|Photo by Seyed Babak Mus]]	+	[[Image:Indian_Short-toed_Lark.jpg\|thumb\|550px\|right\|Photo by Seyed Babak Mus <br/> Location: near to shore in Soorgalm creek]]
-	==Identification==	+
-	Location: near to shore in Soorgalm creek	+
	==Identification==		==Identification==
-	The Sand Lark, also known as India Short-toed Lark or Indian Sand Lark [3] (Calandrella raytal), is a small passerine bird in the lark (Alaudidae) family. Slightly smaller than the sparrow (ca. 13cm), the Sand Lark is greyish sandy, with dark brown streaks, from above, while the belly is white, sparsely and indistinctly dark-streaked on the sides. Supercilium and cheeks are white. Shortish black and white tail. Sexes alike.	+	13cm. Greyish sandy, with dark brown streaks, from above, while the belly is white, sparsely and indistinctly dark-streaked on the sides. Supercilium and cheeks are white. Shortish black and white tail. Sexes alike.
	==Distribution==		==Distribution==
-	It is found east of Jammu, through Haryana, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Nepal terai and plains, Bihar, northern West Bengal, Bhutan foothills, Brahmaputra valley in Assam, and in Bangladesh, extending into Myanmar along the rivers such as the lower Irrawady and Chindwin. Also Madhya Pradesh south to Hoshangabad and Mhow.	+	[[India]]
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	==Taxonomy==		==Taxonomy==

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	==Behaviour==		==Behaviour==
-	Keeps singly or in scattered twos or threes; in non-breeding season in small flocks of upto 20 or 30. Runs about feeding on bare sandy flats in the characteristic zigzag jerky spurts of the family.	+
-	In breeding season, the male has a distinctive song flight. Soaring aloft about 30m it flies about with intermittent series of wing flaps and pauses while singing, finally shooting down vertically with closed wings and flattening out while a metre or so from the ground before alighting on a clod or stone.	+	Diet includes weed, seeds and insects.
-	It eats weed, seeds and insects. Nesting Season: February to May.	+
-	Nest: A cup like depression in the ground at the base of a shrub, lined with grass, hair, etc.	+	Nesting Season: February to May. Nest: A cup like depression in the ground at the base of a shrub, lined with grass, hair, etc. Eggs: 3, sometimes 2. Yellowish or greyish white, freckled with brown. Both sexes share domestic chores.
-	Eggs: 3, sometimes 2. Yellowish or greyish white, freckled with brown.	+
-	Both sexes share domestic chores.	+

IanF at 06:33, 7 September 2007

2007-09-07T06:33:48Z

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	==External Links==		==External Links==
-	*[http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/data/528/15855ndian-sand-lark.jpg View more images of Indian Short-toed Lark in the gallery]	+	{{GSearch\|Calandrella+raytal}}
	[[Category:Birds]]		[[Category:Birds]]

Kits at 20:11, 3 June 2007

2007-06-03T20:11:39Z

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	==Identification==		==Identification==
	Location: near to shore in Soorgalm creek		Location: near to shore in Soorgalm creek
		+	==Identification==
		+	The Sand Lark, also known as India Short-toed Lark or Indian Sand Lark [3] (Calandrella raytal), is a small passerine bird in the lark (Alaudidae) family. Slightly smaller than the sparrow (ca. 13cm), the Sand Lark is greyish sandy, with dark brown streaks, from above, while the belly is white, sparsely and indistinctly dark-streaked on the sides. Supercilium and cheeks are white. Shortish black and white tail. Sexes alike.
		+	==Distribution==
		+	It is found east of Jammu, through Haryana, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Nepal terai and plains, Bihar, northern West Bengal, Bhutan foothills, Brahmaputra valley in Assam, and in Bangladesh, extending into Myanmar along the rivers such as the lower Irrawady and Chindwin. Also Madhya Pradesh south to Hoshangabad and Mhow.

-	The Sand Lark, also known as India Short-toed Lark or Indian Sand Lark [3] (Calandrella raytal), is a small passerine bird in the lark (Alaudidae) family, largely resident in the river valleys of South Asia from Pakistan through sub-Himalayan India to Bangladesh. It is somewhat similar, but smaller than, the Short-toed Lark.

-	[edit] Distribution	+	==Taxonomy==
-	It is found east of Jammu, through Haryana, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Nepal terai and plains, Bihar, northern West Bengal, Bhutan foothills, Brahmaputra valley in Assam, and in Bangladesh, extending into Myanmar along the rivers such as the lower Irrawady and Chindwin. Also Madhya Pradesh south to Hoshangabad and Mhow[4].	+

		+	==Habitat==

-	[edit] Description	+	==Behaviour==
-	Slightly smaller than the sparrow (ca. 13cm), the Sand Lark is greyish sandy, with dark brown streaks, from above, while the belly is white, sparsely and indistinctly dark-streaked on the sides. Supercilium and cheeks are white. Shortish black and white tail. Sexes alike.	+
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	Keeps singly or in scattered twos or threes; in non-breeding season in small flocks of upto 20 or 30. Runs about feeding on bare sandy flats in the characteristic zigzag jerky spurts of the family.		Keeps singly or in scattered twos or threes; in non-breeding season in small flocks of upto 20 or 30. Runs about feeding on bare sandy flats in the characteristic zigzag jerky spurts of the family.
-		+	In breeding season, the male has a distinctive song flight. Soaring aloft about 30m it flies about with intermittent series of wing flaps and pauses while singing, finally shooting down vertically with closed wings and flattening out while a metre or so from the ground before alighting on a clod or stone.
-		+	It eats weed, seeds and insects. Nesting Season: February to May.
-	[edit] Voice	+
-	In breeding season, the male has a distinctive song flight. Soaring aloft about 30m it flies about with intermittent series of wing flaps and pauses while singing, finally shooting down vertically with closed wings and flattening out while a metre or so from the ground before alighting on a clod or stone.[5]	+
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-	[edit] Food	+
-	Weed seeds and insects.	+
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-	[edit] Nesting	+
-	Season: February to May.	+
	Nest: A cup like depression in the ground at the base of a shrub, lined with grass, hair, etc.		Nest: A cup like depression in the ground at the base of a shrub, lined with grass, hair, etc.
	Eggs: 3, sometimes 2. Yellowish or greyish white, freckled with brown.		Eggs: 3, sometimes 2. Yellowish or greyish white, freckled with brown.

Kits at 17:48, 1 June 2007

2007-06-01T17:48:37Z

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	;Calandrella raytal		;Calandrella raytal
-	[[Image:Indian_Short-toed_Lark.jpg\|thumb\|350px\|right\|Photo by Seyed Babak Mus]]	+	[[Image:Indian_Short-toed_Lark.jpg\|thumb\|550px\|right\|Photo by Seyed Babak Mus]]
	==Identification==		==Identification==
	Location: near to shore in Soorgalm creek		Location: near to shore in Soorgalm creek
		+
		+	The Sand Lark, also known as India Short-toed Lark or Indian Sand Lark [3] (Calandrella raytal), is a small passerine bird in the lark (Alaudidae) family, largely resident in the river valleys of South Asia from Pakistan through sub-Himalayan India to Bangladesh. It is somewhat similar, but smaller than, the Short-toed Lark.
		+
		+	[edit] Distribution
		+	It is found east of Jammu, through Haryana, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh, Nepal terai and plains, Bihar, northern West Bengal, Bhutan foothills, Brahmaputra valley in Assam, and in Bangladesh, extending into Myanmar along the rivers such as the lower Irrawady and Chindwin. Also Madhya Pradesh south to Hoshangabad and Mhow[4].
		+
		+
		+	[edit] Description
		+	Slightly smaller than the sparrow (ca. 13cm), the Sand Lark is greyish sandy, with dark brown streaks, from above, while the belly is white, sparsely and indistinctly dark-streaked on the sides. Supercilium and cheeks are white. Shortish black and white tail. Sexes alike.
		+
		+	Keeps singly or in scattered twos or threes; in non-breeding season in small flocks of upto 20 or 30. Runs about feeding on bare sandy flats in the characteristic zigzag jerky spurts of the family.
		+
		+
		+	[edit] Voice
		+	In breeding season, the male has a distinctive song flight. Soaring aloft about 30m it flies about with intermittent series of wing flaps and pauses while singing, finally shooting down vertically with closed wings and flattening out while a metre or so from the ground before alighting on a clod or stone.[5]
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		+
		+	[edit] Food
		+	Weed seeds and insects.
		+
		+
		+	[edit] Nesting
		+	Season: February to May.
		+	Nest: A cup like depression in the ground at the base of a shrub, lined with grass, hair, etc.
		+	Eggs: 3, sometimes 2. Yellowish or greyish white, freckled with brown.
		+	Both sexes share domestic chores.
		+
		+
	==External Links==		==External Links==
	*[http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/data/528/15855ndian-sand-lark.jpg View more images of Indian Short-toed Lark in the gallery]		*[http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/data/528/15855ndian-sand-lark.jpg View more images of Indian Short-toed Lark in the gallery]
	[[Category:Birds]]		[[Category:Birds]]

BirdDB at 23:42, 15 April 2007

2007-04-15T23:42:11Z

New page

;Calandrella raytal
[[Image:Indian_Short-toed_Lark.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Photo by Seyed Babak Mus]]
==Identification==
Location: near to shore in Soorgalm creek
==External Links==
*[http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/data/528/15855ndian-sand-lark.jpg View more images of Indian Short-toed Lark in the gallery]
[[Category:Birds]]