Found on all major islands...introduced
               to Hawaii from England in 1865 and
               from New Zealand in 1870.
          
         
            
               Alauda arvensis
            
               (L 7.25" WS 13" Wt 1.4 oz)
          
         
            
               Near Saddle Road
            
               “Big” Island
            
               21Feb2014
          
         
            
               Birdsong possesses “profuse
               strains of unpremeditated art”.
               (Shelley in “To A Skylark”)
            
               (John Bevis)
          
         
            
               Alauda is Latin for lark; arvensis
               is Latin for of the field.
          
         
            
               © BirdNote,
            
               Dominic Black
          
         
         
            
               © William W.
               H. Gunn
            
               Macaulay
               Library