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horned lark

noun

  1. a lark, Eremophila alpestris, of the Northern Hemisphere, having a tuft of feathers on each side of the crown of the head.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of horned lark1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences

Several species native to the ecosystem, like Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly and the streaked horned lark, are threatened with extinction.

Among those difficult to find were the horned lark, snow bunting and Lapland longspur.

The frozen carcass of a horned lark discovered in northeast Siberia by fossil ivory hunters could help scientists better understand how the ecosystem evolved at the end of the last ice age, new research suggests.

“Our results support this theory since the diversification of the horned lark into these sub species seems to have happened about at the same time as the mammoth steppe disappeared,” Love Dalén, a professor at the Swedish Museum of Natural History and a research leader at the Centre for Palaeogenetics, said in a statement.

Researchers said the bird carcass will also help them better understand how the horned lark evolved.

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