thekla lark

The Thekla Lark has a much shorter bill than yesterday's Crested Lark.

A montane species to Afroalpine zone at 4100 m asl, where I took this photo, but also to sea level in southern Somalia.

use to read how this is so similar to the crested lark but got different calls, never knew that when i see it is will be able to recognize it easily. a lifer form Morocco. hope you like it, thanks for viewing.

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Only ever seen these at the extreme western end of the Algarve but always have a trip there to see them again.

I introduce you "Punk Boy", as a colleague of mine named it when I showed her the pic. Her father used it as a model for a watercolour, which I received yesterday! :bounce: My birdie become a popular character in that family, LOL! :-O Not a very colourful pic, but it's a bird of...

Off for eye test........they'll probably tell me I have two!

A first for me I was hoping to get a photo of one on my Trip, I only found it while going through my Casa Verde photo's to-day I seem to remember deleting some of the shots from this shoot, I should pay more attention never know whats lurking in a folder.

Unlike the almost identical Crested Lark this one is not common at all in the Algarve. Cabo de Sao Vicente area is the only place I've found them.

another first! Once again thank you to Marian for the ID......I had it totally wrong:eek!:

During the last summer holiday in Andaluca, I struggled to get a nice picture for my gallery of this southern specialty but failed miserably. But during last weekend, we found this one in soft backlight by the road willing to collaborate. I'm chuffed to have succeeded finally and longing for...

Not sure if this is a Thekla or a Crested Lark?? Think it's a Thekla :)

Number 8 in a series of 8 European larks.

Taken out of car window at side of a rough mountain track

This trip has been the first one on which I have felt confident enough to claim Thekla Lark, but I am quite ready for someone out there to contradict me... In Morocco Thekla and Crested Larks are supposedly both very common (and both present in this area) but none of my photos looked like...