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Lark Bunting Calamospiza melanocorys Scientific name definitions

Thomas G. Shane
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 2000

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Birds of North America

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Distribution of the Lark Bunting - Lark Bunting -
Distribution of the Lark Bunting
Figure 4. Annual cycle of the Lark Bunting. - Lark Bunting -
Figure 4. Annual cycle of the Lark Bunting.

Thick lines show peak activity; thin lines, off-peak. See text for details.

Figure 1. Distribution of the Lark Bunting. - Lark Bunting -
Figure 1. Distribution of the Lark Bunting.

This species is an irregular breeder east and west to the dashed lines, and a rare winter resident in portions of southern California and adjacent Arizona.

Figure 2. Lark Bunting Primary Flight Song. - Lark Bunting -
Figure 2. Lark Bunting Primary Flight Song.

Recorded at Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge, Phillips Co., MT, 18 Jun 1971 at 07:33 by Donald J. Borror with a Nagra-III recorder and American D33 microphone using Aluminum 24 parabola. Spectrogram prepared by staff member Pamela L. Wilson of the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics (BLB), The Ohio State University, from BLB recording no. 11442 using Kay Elemetrics DSP 5500 Sona-Graph (with an effective frequency resolution of 300 Hz and a 200-point FFT transform size).

Figure 3. Male Lark Bunting in postcopulatory static pose. - Lark Bunting -
Figure 3. Male Lark Bunting in postcopulatory static pose.

Drawing by N. John Schmitt, after Nero 1982.

Recommended Citation

Shane, T. G. (2020). Lark Bunting (Calamospiza melanocorys), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Poole and F. B. Gill, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.larbun.01
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