Lark Bunting Photo Gallery

Breeding male

Large sparrow with very thick, bluish gray bill. Breeding males are mostly black with a large white patch in the wing and white corners to the tail.

Female/immature male

Large sparrow with very thick, bluish gray bill. Females and young birds have thick brown streaking on the breast. They have a pale stripe over the eye and a dark "mustache" stripe with a white throat patch.

Female/immature

To separate from other brown, streaky songbirds, note very thick, bluish gray bill and long white patch along the folded wing.

Nonbreeding male

Large, chunky sparrow with thick bill. Nonbreeding males are dark brown and streaky, with the same large white patch in the wing that breeding males have.

Female/immature male

Large sparrow with thick bill and relatively short tail. Females and immatures are heavily streaked with brown, with white edges to the wing coverts that form a streaky white patch, especially visible in flight.