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Eurasian Skylark
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.
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Dominic Black
© Wikipedia
© William W.
H. Gunn
Macaulay
Library