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Vol. 2 No. 2 (1971)

NOTES: THE LARK BUNTING IN CALIFORNIA

Submitted
August 9, 2025
Published
April 1, 1971

Abstract

On 28 and 29 April 1970 we (SRW and WDC) observed 14 Lark Buntings Calamospiza melanocorys, including 6 males, in overgrazed grassland of Yokohl Valley, approximately ten miles southeast of Exeter, Tulare County. Grinnell and Miller (Pacific Coast Avifauna no. 27, 1944) consider it an irregular winter visitor to southern California, and cite only two records to the north of the Tehachapi Mountains in the Central Valley (Dudley, Mariposa County, and Tulare Lake, Kings County). A check of the literature reveals three additional records of single birds for the Central Valley.

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