Length: 9.5" Western Meadowlark - More at All About Birds. About the size of a robin but more chunky and with a shorter tail, the Western Meadowlark is a bird of grass- and sage-lands, fields and pastures, meadows and prairies – a bird of open habitats. No other song even comes close. Incubation: The female incubates the eggs for about 14 days. Indeed, the song of the Western Meadowlark can be rightly acclaimed the essential musical theme of much of the West. [Western Meadowlark song] Indeed, the Western Meadowlark’s song can be rightly acclaimed the essential musical theme of much of the West. Birds connect us with the joy and wonder of nature. Email Gary Clark at Texasbirder@comcast.net, Gary Clark is the weekly nature columnist for the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. Fish and G.A. Gary has been active in the birding community for more than 30 years. The Eastern Meadowlark is related to blackbirds and orioles, not larks. Look, but especially listen, for meadowlarks in the open country and natural prairies of the West. He founded the Piney Woods Wildlife Society in 1982 and the Texas Coast Rare Bird Alert in 1983. Fortunately for us, a song of such sustained, rich, liquid whistles at contrasting pitches gives the meadowlark’s singing acoustic qualities that carry over long distances. too. On the ground, their brown-and-black dappled upperparts camouflage the birds among dirt clods and dry grasses. Clutch Size: Ranges from 3 to 6 eggs, with 5 egg clutches most common. He has won eight Lone Star College writing awards and is the recipient of the Houston Audubon Society 2004 Excellence in Media Award and the Citizens' Environmental Coalition 2010 Synergy Media Award for Environmental Reporting. No matter how lark-sounding the song, meadowlarks are not in the same family as larks of the Old World. Plant these in the fall for a spring cutting garden in Houston, Look hard for scary barred owls on Halloween, Camellias add cool-season color to the garden. Yet the birds do not usually sing on their breeding territory as do many other songbirds. He is also a member of the American Mensa Society. By telling vivid, sound-rich stories about birds and the challenges they face, BirdNote inspires listeners to care about the natural world – and take steps to protect it. Yet meadowlarks can sing about 100 varying melodies, each song announcing a blossoming prairie and signaling Earth’s awakening from winter and the renewal of life. Call notes are often given in a series, especially in flight, and are loud raspy chatters. The songs are quite different, as are the call notes. Diet: Insects, especially grasshoppers and crickets, as well as insect larvae and grubs. Keller. A black V-shaped bib offsets the meadowlark’s glowing yellow breast and belly. The clear, plaintive, sliding song of the Eastern Meadowlark is a welcomed sign of spring. The yellow of the throat extends higher up onto the face in the Western. Weight: 3.2 oz. Gary is also a contributing author in the book, "Pride of Place: A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing.". This is an Eastern. Visual differences are more subtle, but they do exist. He was vice president of the Board of Directors for the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory 2001-2008. The male and female look alike. 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The breeding range includes Eastern and Central North America, parts of the southwestern states and parts of Mexico, to northern South America, and the Caribbean. A female will often raise two broods in a season. Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-06) first described the difference between western and eastern meadowlarks. Recorded by W.R. and a sputtering rattle: brtbrtttttttt! The song of this bird is of pure, melancholy whistles, and thus simpler than the jumbled and flutey song of the western meadowlark; their ranges overlap across central North America.In the field, the song is often the easiest way to tell the two species apart, though plumage differences do exist, like tail pattern and malar coloration.. BirdNote’s theme music was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler. Fortunately for us, a song of such sustained, rich, liquid whistles at contrasting pitches gives the meadowlark’s singing acoustic qualities that carry over long distances. Texas has both eastern meadowlarks in our area and western meadowlarks in the western half of the state. She may construct a grass tunnel up to 3 feet long leading to the nest to secure it from predators.

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