- Galerida magnirostris
Identification
18 cm in length. Short tail, thick bill with a yellow base to the lower mandible. Streaked brown-grey upperparts, and a long white supercilium. Cream underparts with heavy dark streaking on the breast. The heavy bicoloured bill distinguished this species from all other African larks.
The call of this very vocal species is is a soft creaking treeeeleeeeleee.
Distribution
South Africa, Lesotho and southernmost Namibia.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Mountain grassland. It is also found in cultivated and fallow agricultural land.
Behaviour
Like other larks, it nests on the ground. Its food is seeds and insects, the latter especially in the breeding season.
