ID help for Lark or Finch from Deosai, Pakistan. (1 Viewer)

[imranb]

Need help identifying the bird from Deosai National Park (elevation of around 4000m or 13000ft), Pakistan (July 2022).
no other angle available unfortunately.

 

[CARERY]

For sure it's a lark. It's really worn and bleached... Anyway, the rather long and slender bill plus long primary projection should make it a Tibetan Lark I think.

 

[Grahame Walbridge]

For sure it's a lark. It's really worn and bleached... Anyway, the rather long and slender bill plus long primary projection should make it a Tibetan Lark I think.

Not a species that I'm at all familiar with but agree with Roland's conclusion that its a Tibetan Lark. Re bill, the angle foreshortens but you can still make out the curved culmen.

I was not aware Tibetan occurs/has been recorded in Pakistan but the location is not far from Ladakh where it does occur. Habitat/altitude look spot-on.

Grahame.

 

[01101001]

I was not aware Tibetan occurs/has been recorded in Pakistan but the location is not far from Ladakh where it does occur. Habitat/altitude look spot-on.

It doesn't appear to have been recorded indeed: Pakistan bird checklist - Avibase - Bird Checklists of the World.

 

[Brian J Small]

This might be Tibetan, but a couple of things seem odd:

Is the bill not massive or pink-based enough? ML462654021 Tibetan Lark Macaulay Library

Even when worn, would the white tips to the secondaries still not be present? ML452779841 Tibetan Lark Macaulay Library

Just asking the question, could it be a Crested with depressed crest and with longest tertial lost giving impression of long p projection? ML341868611 Crested Lark Macaulay Library

Brian

 

[CARERY]

Just asking the question, could it be a Crested with depressed crest and with longest tertial lost giving impression of long p projection? ML341868611 Crested Lark Macaulay Library

Exactly this was my first thought but then somehow I discarded it. Given that Tibetan doesn't seem to be recorded in Pakistan, Crested should be much more likely of course.