#1245 · 🐦 birds

Black Lark

🇳🇱 Zwarte Leeuwerik ·Melanocorypha yeltoniensis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Dave Curtis · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © sofya_priezzhih · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Дарья Васильева · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Дарья Васильева · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Бакчар, Томская обл., Россия, 636200:© mikhailbelousov · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Wales, GB:© Paul Bowyer · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Шетский район, 100000, Казахстан:© Askar Isabekov · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Korgalzhyn District, Kazakhstan:© Martin Kennewell · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Алтайский край, Россия, 658270:© Михаил Новичков · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Orenburg, RU:© Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

The black lark ( Melanocorypha yeltoniensis ) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found in south-eastern Russia and Kazakhstan.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 320iNaturalist observations
weight 63.7 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
320 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 64 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1768 (258 years ago).