Lark Bunting Bird

Facts about Lark bunting bird. "Scientific name for Lark bunting bird is Calamospiza melanocorys". Lark bunting bird is an average-sized sparrow from America that belongs to the genus Calamospiza of the Emberizidae family. These birds are native to the western and the central parts of North America. The Lark Bunting bird is the most common of the passerine variety seen in the North American grasslands. Their breeding home is prairie areas in the central part of Canada and the mid-western parts of the United States. The Lark bunting bird travel in groups to winter southern parts of Texas in Arizona and the high raised ground of the northern parts Mexico during the fall. The Lark Bunting bird is the state bird of the Colorado State.

Features of Lark bunting bird

Lark bunting birds are average-sized songbirds, with a small, solid, blue color bill. They have a huge white color patch on their wings and they have moderately a small tail, with white color tips at the end of their feathers. Breeding male birds contain an entire black body with a huge white patch on their upper part of their wing. Non-breeding female and male Lark Bunting birds look similar and they appear with grayish tan with white color stripes.

Usually, the Lark bunting bird builds its nest in detached colonies. Male birds fly up over their area and they sing while coming down to announce ownership of a nesting region. The song is made up of a combination of trills and whistles, which is a soft hoo. Their nest is an open cup on the floor in a grassy region.

Sexual choice in Lark Bunting birds is predominantly interesting, as the option of a female mate is radically diverse from year to year. In diverse years, female Lark bunting birds show preference derived from the black coloring, size of beak, size of wing patch, including other characteristics of a male bird. The result of this great variation of female option from year to year is the preservation of hereditary variation in numerous dissimilar male sexual decorations.

A study determines body color, percentage of black against brown color feathers on the remains of the body, size and color of the wing patch, size of the body and the beak, and remaining mass, so as to evaluate the manifold features potentially chosen by the female Lark bunting birds. The success of the social pairing is measured, including total yearly fitness, finding female option as the main factor. Flexibility in the female option is preferred for adapting to transformations in social and ecological environments.

Diet of Lark bunting bird

Lark bunting birds usually forage on the land, and they mainly feed on insects during the summer season and on seeds during the winter season. Occasionally, they take small flights in chase of insects.

Behavior of Lark bunting bird

As the Lark Bunting birds are communally monogamous, there is wide additional-pair mating, observed through additional-pair parenthood. These songbirds are communally monogamous due to restricted chances for polygyny. There is substantial violence between females and between males, contending for mates. Several male Lark bunting birds are incapable to locate a social mate that can be due to male-prejudiced breeding sex percentage, communal monogamy, and the frequency of additional-pair parenthood. Acquisition of a communal mate is a necessary part of the fitness of a male Lark bunting bird, and therefore, social mating victory plays a major role in the variable choice of male attributes.

The average lifespan of the Lark bunting bird ranges from 8 years to 10 years.