EPOW - Ecology Picture of the Week

Each week a different image of our fascinating environment is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional ecologist.

20-26 July 2020

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Red-capped Songster

Red-capped Lark (Calandrella cinerea saturatior), Family Alaudidae
Seregeti National Park, Tanzania

Credit & Copyright: Dr. Bruce G. Marcot

Explanation:  This is a common songbird of eastern and southern Africa, here on a precarious perch of an acacia with sword-like thorns.  Heralding its territory is this male, displaying its characteristic red crest, brownish-gray back spotted with white, and rufous wing feathers just barely edged in white (more noticable in flight).

Red-capped Larks are denizens of highlands and, as with this subspecies, open plains and short grasslands.  I nabbed this image in Seregeti National Park of northern Tanzania.
    

   

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