The Horned Lark is the 2026 Bird of the Year. Here’s what to know about its habitat, diet, song, nesting behavior, ...

Celebrated for grit and song the horned lark is quietly squeezed by shrinking open ground pesticides, and bad timing too.

Every year, the American Birding Association (ABA) chooses a Bird of the Year to highlight, educate readers about, and further conservation efforts to help. Last year’s pick was a birder favorite, ...

There are roughly 750 kinds of birds in the United States. So, what are the chances that one of them, Horned Lark, would grace the covers of two major birding magazines this month? Not only that, each ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Halloween is long past, but you may notice devilish figures hanging out in scrubby fields and open areas this winter: horned larks. These birds are ...

Maybe it's a little early in the year to be listening for singing horned larks, but not by much. Horned larks are the first harbingers of spring, often arriving in the Red River Valley by mid-February ...

As soon as I turned off the interstate highway on my way home from Bismarck last week, I began noticing small birds in loose flocks moving along the highway. These had to be horned larks, and spring ...

Biologist Adrian Wolf searches the ground for something camouflaged in the dry prairie grass. Then he spots it: a baby streaked horned lark. Wolf’s hands tremble as he puts a tiny silver ...