Larks

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YEMEN SAIJIKI


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Larks breeding

***** Location: Yemen
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Animal

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Explanation


- Black-crowned Finch Lark
(Eremopterix nigriceps nigriceps):
Tihama wadis, Shabwa steppe + flat desert




- Hoopoe Lark (Alaemon alaudipes):
Shabwa steppe + flat desert
[The call is a rolling zreee, and the song, given in flight, is a series of sad piping notes]
Hoopoe Lark / PHOTOS



- Short-toed Lark (Calandrella rufescens):
Tihama wadis, Shabwa steppe + flat desert
[The song is richer, more varied and imitative than that of its relative!]


- Crested Lark (Galerida cristata/Haubenlerche):
Wadi Dahr
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crested_Lark]

In Yemen there is more than one breeding season; breeding time 5 - 6 weeks;
"October seems the breeding time at its peak! ", so birders / visitors from europe.

Heike Gewi


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Worldwide use


Lark (hibari)


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

sad notes
about a flat tyre..
lark song

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tea at least
between bushes
the lark sings

Heike Gewi, Yemen, April 2008



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Related words


***** BIRDS OF YEMEN - SAIJIKI


***** YEMEN SAIJIKI


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