TROPIC and NEAR-TROPIC BIRD COLLECTION

Horned Lark Snow Setting Horned Lark- Eremophila alpestris Horned Lark- Eremophila alpestris, Order Passerfiformes, Family Alaudidae. A life photo-first for me. These beautiful birds were behind the grain elevators in a farmers field just east of College Corner, Indiana. The skies were clear and the temperature was a frigid 13 degrees! I was shooting into the glaring morning sun! "The only true lark native to North America. Breed across North America from Alaska and the Canadian arctic to northern Georgia, Lousiana and Mexico. Winters from southern Canada southward." (Photo: January 27, 2005, Canon EOS 1D Mark II digital camera with 600mm f/4.0 L IS lens and and 1.4X TC ) More Species Info: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Horned_Lark_dtl.html

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Photos Copyright R. Hays Cummins. Authorization required. For permission, contact hays@environment-education-press.org

Sources of species identification and other amazing info include (1) Cornell Lab of Ornithology--a fantastic site; (2)Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Peterson Field Guide Series, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company; (3) The National Audubon Society's Sibley Guide to Birds and (4) Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Third Edition, National Geographic, Washington, D.C.