Sky Lark Alauda arvensis

Identification Tips:

• Length: 6.25 inches
• Thin bill
• White supercilium
• Brown upperparts
• Streaked crown and back
• Buffy breast with dark streaks
• White belly and undertail coverts
• White outer tail feathers
• White trailing edge to wing
• Pink legs
• North American range limited to Vancouver Island, British Columbia-stray elsewhere
• Inhabits fields

Similar species:

The Sky Lark can be told from sparrows by its thin bill and from pipits by its streaked crown and back and white trailing edge to the wing.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.