Larks
Order: Passeriformes. Family: Alaudidae
Larks are small terrestrial birds with often extravagant songs and display flights. Most larks are fairly dull in appearance. Their food is insects and seeds. There are 91 species worldwide and 22 species which occur in India.
- Singing Bushlark Mirafra cantillans
- Indian Bushlark Mirafra erythroptera
- Bengal Bushlark Mirafra assamica
- Jerdon's Bushlark Mirafra affinis
- Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix nigriceps
- Ashy-crowned Sparrow-Lark Eremopterix griseus
- Rufous-tailed Lark Ammomanes phoenicura (E)
- Bar-tailed Lark Ammomanes cinctura (Split by Rasmussen and Anderton, 2005)
- Desert Lark Ammomanes deserti
- Bimaculated Lark Melanocorypha bimaculata
- Tibetan Lark Melanocorypha maxima
- Greater Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla
- Hume's Short-toed Lark Calandrella acutirostris
- Lesser Short-toed Lark Calandrella rufescens
- Sand Lark Calandrella raytal
- Crested Lark Galerida cristata
- Malabar Lark Galerida malabarica (E)
- Sykes's Lark Galerida deva (E)
- Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis
- Oriental Skylark Alauda gulgula
- Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris
- Greater Hoopoe-Lark Alaemon alaudipes
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