Horned Lark
Eremophila alpestris alpestris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Photo © By Andrew Weitzel from Lancaster, PA, USA - Horned Lark, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87324776
Sub-species
STATUS
Eastern Canada.
OVERVIEW
A. G. Knox (1993) gives a lengthy tale of how Richard Meinertzhagen committed fraud with his claimed records (Ibis 135: 320-325).
NOT PROVEN
0). 1953 Outer Hebrides South Uist, 29th September.
(E. V. Baxter, Scottish Birds 1: 119; I. C. T. Nisbet, British Birds 56: 204-217; BOU, 1971).
[A. G. Knox, Ibis 135: 320-325].
History Admitted by E. V. Baxter (1958) in Scottish Birds, Vol. I. p. 119, under 'Review of Ornithological changes in Scotland in 1958,' who says: 'Eremophila alpestris alpestris. A male, South Uist, 29th September 1953.'
I. C. T. Nisbet (1963) in British Birds, Vol. LVI. pp. 204-217, under 'American Passerines in western Europe, 1951-62,' says: '...With the exception of the Horned Lark, every one of the thirteen species mentioned in table 1 is known to perform a long-distance migration, either across the Gulf of Mexico (Stevenson 1957) or across part of the western North Atlantic (Drury and Keith 1962)....The main migration dates are at Maryland 30th Sept. - 15th Dec., and at Massachusetts 17th Oct - winter.'
