Minnesota Seasons - Eastern Meadowlark

Conservation • Description • Habitat • Ecology • Distribution • Taxonomy


Conservation Status
IUCN Red List	LC - Least Concern
NatureServe	N5 - Secure SNRB - Unranked Breeding
Minnesota	not listed Species in Greatest Conservation Need

Description

Size

9″ to 9½″ in length

14″ wingspan

Voice

Similar Species

Habitat

Grassy meadows and pastures, savannas

Ecology

Migration

Mid-March to late November

Nesting

Food

Distribution

Occurrence

Common migrant and breeder

Maps

The Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union All Seasons Species Occurrence Map


Taxonomy
Class	Aves (birds)
Order	Passeriformes (perching birds)
Family	Icteridae (New World blackbirds and orioles)
Genus	Sturnella (eastern and western meadowlarks)

Subordinate Taxa
Cuban Meadowlark (Sturnella magna hippocrepis) Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna alticola) Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna auropectoralis) Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna griscomi) Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna inexspectata) Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna magna) Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna meridionalis) Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna monticola) Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna paralios) Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna praticola) Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna saundersi) Eastern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna subulata) Lilian’s Meadowlark (Sturnella magna lilianae) Mexican Meadowlark (Sturnella magna mexicana) Rio Grande Meadowlark (Sturnella magna hoopesi) Southern Meadowlark (Sturnella magna argutula)

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Eastern Meadowlark
Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren

Eastern Meadowlark
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Eastern Meadowlarks
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Eastern Meadowlark, Chirlobirlo (Sturnella magna)
davidcaro79

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Uploaded on Jul 5, 2009

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Eastern Meadowlark Portait
The Music of Nature

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Uploaded on May 10, 2010

Footage of a singing Eastern Meadowlark gathered at the Bradford Farm Experimental Station (University of Missouri) near Columbia, Missouri. I particularly like the second clip, which is a study in browns. The whistled song of the male has been likened to the phrase "Spring Of The Year".

© 2010 Lang Elliott
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Eastern Meadowlark
Michael Pancier

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Eastern Meadowlark Singing - Taken in Hendry County, Florida

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Eastern Meadowlark Song
Trailerpark Chicks

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Published on May 17, 2012

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The song of this bird is of pure, melancholy whistles, and thus simpler than the jumbled and flutey song of the Western Meadowlark; their ranges overlap across central North America. In the field, the song is often the easiest way to tell the two species apart, though plumage differences do exist, like tail pattern and malar coloration.

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