ORIENTAL SKYLARK ALAUDA GULGULA NESTING IN ELEPHANT DUNG IN CORBETT TIGER RESERVE, INDIA

摘要

The Oriental Skylark Alauda gulgula is resident in India (Rasmussen and Anderton 2012), and found throughout much of the subcontinent, except for parts of the northwest and northeast (Grimmett et al. 1998). The species is known to occur in open grasslands (Kazmierczak 2000) on the edge of jheels (Ali and Ripley 1987). It breeds in the western Himalaya from May to July (Ali and Ripley 1987) and builds a cup-shaped nest of grass, usually under an earth clod or grass tuft (Grimmett et al. 1998). "The nest is made in a natural depression in the ground, such as cattle hoof-print or maybe partly scraped out by the bird itself and comprises a hollow cup woven of grasses and lined with animal hair or finer roots" (Roberts 1992).