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Eastern Meadowlarks are chunky, medium-sized songbirds with short tails and long, spear-shaped bills. In flight, their rounded wings, short tails, and long ...
The sweet, lazy whistles of Eastern Meadowlarks waft over summer grasslands and farms in eastern North America. The birds themselves sing from fenceposts ...
A familiar bird, known by the black 'V' on its chest when it sings from a fencepost, or by the flash of white tail feathers when it flushes from the grass.
The eastern meadowlark (Sturnella magna) is a medium-sized blackbird (family: Icteridae), very similar in appearance to sister species western meadowlark.
Streaked brown above and yellow below with distinctive black "V" on breast. In flight, short wings and spiky tail with white outer feathers are apparent.
Scientific Name: Sturnella magna · Population: 37 million · Trend: Decreasing · Habitat: Meadows, fields, pastures, prairies, desert grasslands.
Habitat: Eastern Meadowlarks prefer native grasslands and open savannas, but are also found in many human-altered grassy habitats. Diet: Insects, especially ...
Life History. Eastern meadowlarks are sedentary throughout much of their breeding range, and pairing tends to occur in early April. Nest construction begins a ...
Two or possibly three species of meadowlarks (actually blackbirds, not larks) reside in Texas with extensive range overlap between the Eastern and Western (S.