Western Meadowlark Bird | Slide Mouse

Sturnella neglecta remarkably similar to the eastern meadowlark in colors and pattern this bird is recognized by its very different song and callnotes. The two species of meadowlarks evidently can easily recognize their own kind the same way. Kansas montana nebraska north dakota oregon and wyoming.

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The oldest recorded western meadowlark was at least 6 years 6 months old when it was found in colorado.

Western meadowlark bird. Western meadowlark call song call song sputters thomas g. Meadowlarks are often more easily heard than seen unless you spot a male singing from a fence post. Doris brookens macaulay library florida march 26 2017. Only the northern cardinal is a more popular civic symbol edging out the meadowlark by one state.

Graves usfws mountain prairie albatrosses 4 american sparrows towhees and juncos 40. The western is generally paler than the eastern but similar to the lilian s showing a pale gray brown overall color rather than the warmer more saturated brown of the eastern. It nests on the ground in open grasslands across western and central north america. Even where their ranges overlap in the midwest and southwest they almost never interbreed.

Eastern and western meadowlarks are best separated by voice. It feeds mostly on bugs but will also feed on seeds and berries. Strangely both eastern and western meadowlarks also bear an uncanny resemblance to a totally unrelated african bird called the longclaw which confused the naturalist carolus linnaeus enough to consider the three birds part of a single species and list the species range as america africa. They also show slightly more white in the tail in flight than western.

The western meadowlark is the state bird of six states. The western meadowlark is the size of a robin but chunkier and shorter tailed with a flat head long slender bill and a round shouldered posture that nearly conceals its neck. The buoyant flutelike melody of the western meadowlark ringing out across a field can brighten anyone s day. About the size of an american robin but with a shorter tail.

For silent birds look for darker head stripes and a mostly white not yellow mustache stripe on eastern. This colorful member of the blackbird family flashes a vibrant yellow breast crossed by a distinctive black v shaped band. The western meadowlark sturnella neglecta is a medium sized icterid bird about 8 5 in 22 cm in length. The wings are rounded and short for the bird s size and the tail is short stiff and spiky.