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Horned Lark

Eremophila alpestris

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Alaudidae

The horned lark or shore lark (Eremophila alpestris) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found across the northern hemisphere. It is known as "horned lark" in North America for distinctive feathers on the heads of the male birds in summer, and as "shore lark" in Europe because it can be found on shorelines in the winter. Taxonomy The horned lark was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Alauda alpestris.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 13,677Germany · 2,623United Kingdom · 1,829France · 404Belgium · 43Italy · 26Spain · 1