Sangahyando
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I've come across quite a few larks this year, but some of them are less easy to ID than others. I'm fairly confident that I've seen Thekla's several times, given the songs, calls, underwing patterns and habitats of the birds involved, but I'd like to be able to tell if any of my pictures show this species (and not Crested Lark, which was quite abundant and which I've seen many times before), as I didn't have previous experience with it.
The ones in the pictures below were spotted in olive groves on the slopes of a hill in southern Extremadura, Spain, June of this year. Apologies for the low resolution, the images were heavily cropped and my camera isn't the best. I hope some of the relevent details will be visible nonetheless.
The ones in the pictures below were spotted in olive groves on the slopes of a hill in southern Extremadura, Spain, June of this year. Apologies for the low resolution, the images were heavily cropped and my camera isn't the best. I hope some of the relevent details will be visible nonetheless.