Anthus campestris
            
               (L 6.6")
          
         
            
               Often found on the ground...
               in temperate Europe, Asia,
               and northwest Africa.
          
         
         
            
               John James Audubon (aka Jean Rabine)
               was born in today‘s Haiti in 1785...the
               illegitmate son of a French sea-captain
               and a chambermaid.
            
               (Scott Weidensaul)
          
         
            
               Rila Mountains
            
               Near Elishnitsa
            
               13May2015
          
         
            
               Anthus is Greek for flower;
               campestris is Latin for of
               the plains.
          
         
         
            
               © Serguei A.
               Bukreev
            
               Macaulay
               Library