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Need help to identify this lark. I took the photographs from Multan, Punjab, Pakistan On 20 August 2017.
Sorry for not so clear pics.
 

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Hi, is this definitely a lark? Really hard to see any detail of the bill, and can't really judge tail length, but might it be a Tawny Pipit?
 
Motmot said:
Doesn't look a pipit to me, I'd say this is a Crested Lark.
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That was my thought too.

One can almost sense that the tertials are slightly shorter than the primaries, and the wing in particular has the pattern and structure of that robust species.

Peter
 
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Just does not look like a Lark to me, apparently small bill is better for a Pipit despite Peter's 'sense' of the tertials IMHO.....?


A
 
andyadcock said:
Just does not look like a Lark to me, apparently small bill is better for a Pipit despite Peter's 'sense' of the tertials IMHO.....?


A
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I also sense that a Pipit (perhaps in particular such a long-legged species as Tawny Pipit) would have a different stance, and would be anatomically/proportionally at a variance with our subject;)

Peter
 
Looking at these again I tend to agree it looks more lark than pipit, especially the first photo.
 
DMW said:
Looking at these again I tend to agree it looks more lark than pipit, especially the first photo.
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On what though?

Choices are fairly limited and it just doesn't look bulky enough or have the right bill structure for Crested lark to me?

I'm sticking with Pipit until someones qualifies why it's a Lark and what Lark


A
 
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P.Sunesen said:
I like your attitude:t:

There's got to be some evidence to ones "feel" or "sense" of the genus.

Here's one more "de-tail" in favour of Crested Lark versus Tawny Pipit: the tail projection is shorter in the former than in the latter.

http://www.netfugl.dk/pictures.php?id=showpicture&picture_id=57516

http://www.netfugl.dk/pictures.php?id=showpicture&picture_id=57887

Peter
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The bill structure alone, IMHO defeats you argument, way to small and narrow based than ant Crested I ever saw? I never looked at this and thought Lark?

A
 
Bulky shape, long thick streaks on chest, lack of long and evident submoustachial white stripe, all shout Crested Lark to me. Also bill base looks quite broad to me.
 
andyadcock said:
The bill structure alone, IMHO defeats you argument, way to small and narrow based than ant Crested I ever saw? I never looked at this and thought Lark?

A
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Bill is one end of the bird. Tail is at the other end.

And I never looked at this lark and thought: Pipit!

People are different.

And so are birds.

Found a rather dainty-billed Crested, but with our bird we're looking at a set of blurred images....

https://www.shutterstock.com/da/vid...lark-bird-standing.html?src=rel/14027945:2/gg
 
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