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Oriental skylark

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The Oriental skylark (Alauda gulgula), also known as the Oriental lark or small skylark, is a species of skylark found in southern and central Asia. [1]

35 relations: Alauda, Andhra Pradesh, Animal, Annie Meinertzhagen, Bird, Bird vocalization, Chordate, Crest (feathers), Ernst Hartert, Ernst Mayr, Faridabad, Feather, Grassland, Hainan, Haryana, Himalayas, Hodal, Humayun Abdulali, James Franklin (naturalist), Kolkata, Kolleru Lake, Lark, Masauji Hachisuka, Nikolai Severtzov, Pamir Mountains, Passerine, Plumage, Richard Meinertzhagen, Robert Swinhoe, Seed predation, Subspecies, Tibetan Plateau, Valentin Bianchi, West Bengal, William Edwin Brooks.

Alauda

Alauda is a genus of larks found across much of Europe, Asia and in the mountains of north Africa, and one of the species (the Raso lark) endemic to the islet of Raso in the Cape Verde Islands.

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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh is one of the 29 states of India.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Annie Meinertzhagen

Annie Meinertzhagen (2 June 1889 – 6 July 1928) was a British amateur ornithologist who contributed to studies on British birds, most significantly the moulting patterns in ducks and waders.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bird vocalization

Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs.

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Chordate

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

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Crest (feathers)

The crest is a prominent feature exhibited by several bird and other dinosaur species on their heads.

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Ernst Hartert

Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (29 October 1859 – 11 November 1933) was a German ornithologist.

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Ernst Mayr

Ernst Walter Mayr (5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.

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Faridabad

Faridabad is the largest city in the north Indian state of Haryana.

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Feather

Feathers are epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds and other, extinct species' of dinosaurs.

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Grassland

Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae); however, sedge (Cyperaceae) and rush (Juncaceae) families can also be found along with variable proportions of legumes, like clover, and other herbs.

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Hainan

Hainan is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea.

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Haryana

Haryana, carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1November 1966 on linguistic basis, is one of the 29 states in India.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

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Hodal

Hodal is a city and a municipal council in Palwal district in the Haryana state of India.

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Humayun Abdulali

Humayun Abdulali (19 May 1914, Kobe, Japan - 3 June 2001, Mumbai, India) was an Indian ornithologist and biologist who was also a cousin of the "birdman of India", Salim Ali.

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James Franklin (naturalist)

James Franklin (c. 1783 – 31 August 1834) was a British soldier.

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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Kolleru Lake

Kolleru Lake is one of the largest freshwater lakes in India located in state of Andhra Pradesh and forms the largest shallow freshwater lake in Asia, 15 kilometers away from the city of Eluru.

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Lark

Larks are passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.

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Masauji Hachisuka

, 18th Marquess Hachisuka, was a Japanese ornithologist and aviculturist.

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Nikolai Severtzov

Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (5 November 1827 – 8 February 1885) was a Russian explorer and naturalist.

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Pamir Mountains

The Pamir Mountains, or the Pamirs, are a mountain range in Central Asia at the junction of the Himalayas with the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, Hindu Kush, Suleman and Hindu Raj ranges.

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Passerine

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species.

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Plumage

Plumage ("feather") refers both to the layer of feathers that cover a bird and the pattern, colour, and arrangement of those feathers.

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Richard Meinertzhagen

Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, CBE, DSO (3 March 1878 – 17 June 1967) was a British soldier, intelligence officer and ornithologist.

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Robert Swinhoe

Robert Swinhoe FRS (1 September 1836 – 28 October 1877) was an English biologist who worked as a Consul in Formosa.

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Seed predation

Seed predation, often referred to as granivory, is a type of plant-animal interaction in which granivores (seed predators) feed on the seeds of plants as a main or exclusive food source,Hulme, P.E. and Benkman, C.W. (2002) "Granivory", pp.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.

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Tibetan Plateau

The Tibetan Plateau, also known in China as the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau or the Qing–Zang Plateau or Himalayan Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau in Central Asia and East Asia, covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai in western China, as well as part of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, India.

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Valentin Bianchi

Valentin Lvovich Bianchi (18 February 1857 – 10 January 1920) (Russian: Валентин Львович Бианки) was a Russian ornithologist.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Paśchimbāṅga) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.

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William Edwin Brooks

William Edwin Brooks (July 30, 1828 near Dublin, Ireland – January 18, 1899 in Mount Forest, Ontario) was a civil engineer in India and an ornithologist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_skylark

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