{"id":258,"date":"2019-11-26T07:27:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T07:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2022-05-25T08:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T08:30:23","slug":"bengal-bushlark-mirafra-assamica-at-corbett-tiger-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/bengal-bushlark-mirafra-assamica-at-corbett-tiger-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal Bushlark (Mirafra Assamica) at Corbett Tiger Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bengal Bushlark (<em>Mirafra Assamica<\/em>) at Laldhang Grassland, Dhela Tourism Zone, Corbett Tiger Reserve<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Bengal Bushlark has a strong bill, short tail, white supercilium, strong dark streaks on grey upperparts, spotting on upper breast and behind the ear-coverts, warm coloration to underparts and rufous coloration to the wings. It is resident in the Indian subcontinent and south-east Asia, distributed in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. It prefers open areas including grasslands, dry and rocky patches, scrubland and cultivation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-259 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bengal-Bushlark-MKS_3141-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Bengal Bushlark\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bengal-Bushlark-MKS_3141-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bengal-Bushlark-MKS_3141-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bengal-Bushlark-MKS_3141-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bengal-Bushlark-MKS_3141-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-173x116.jpg 173w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bengal-Bushlark-MKS_3141-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bengal-Bushlark-MKS_3141-Copyright-Manoj-Sharma.jpg 1518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is a breeding resident in Corbett Tiger Reserve, along the southern boundary of the reserve. This fine specimen was photographed recently by Jim&#8217;s Jungle Retreat Chief Naturalist Manoj Sharma in Laldhang grassland of Dhela Tourism Zone of Corbett Tiger Reserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengal Bushlark (Mirafra Assamica) at Laldhang Grassland, Dhela Tourism Zone, Corbett Tiger Reserve Bengal Bushlark has a strong bill, short tail, white supercilium, strong dark streaks on grey upperparts, spotting on upper breast and behind the ear-coverts, warm coloration to underparts and rufous coloration to the wings. It is resident in the Indian subcontinent and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[78,13,63,62,71],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jimsjungleretreat","tag-bengal-bushlark","tag-corbett-tiger-reserve","tag-dhela-tourism-zone","tag-jims-jungle-retreat","tag-manoj-sharma"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsjungleretreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}