Lark Bunting Images

Lark Bunting Images, Facts and Information:

Calamospiza melanocorys

• Lark Buntings are large sparrows. Adult males in breeding plumage are nearly all black with white wing patches, white edged tails and have heavy blue-gray bills. In nonbreeding plumage they have streaked gray-brown upperparts, streaked brown underparts, white wing patches, black throats, and white edged tails. Females and juveniles are duller and do not have black throats.
• Lark Buntings are migratory. They breed on the prairies of south-central Canada the the central U.S. from Saskatchewan south to northern Texas. Lark Buntings spend the winter in southwest states and northern Mexico.
• Lark Buntings prefer shortgrass prairies, open areas, and sagebrush flat habitats.
• Lark Buntings feed on beetles, ants, grasshoppers, seeds and grains.
• Lark Buntings lay 3 to 7 eggs which hatch in 11 to 12 days. The females incubate and they are primarily monogamous, some are polygynous.
• A group of buntings can be called a “decoration” or “mural” of buntings.
• Lark Buntings can live to be more than four years of age.

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