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Dupont's Lark

Sir David Attenborough presents the Dupont's lark of southern Europe and North Africa.

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Sir David Attenborough presents the Dupont's lark of southern Europe and North Africa. The European home for the Duponts lark is the arid grasslands of south-east Spain where Spaghetti Westerns were once filmed. The Dupont's lark is notoriously difficult to find as it skulks between tussocks of dry but at dawn and again at sunset, male Dupont's larks emerge from their hiding places and perform display flights over their grassy territories. As they rise into the sky their song is a melancholy refrain, which once heard is rarely forgotten.

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Wed 10 Feb 2021 05:58

Dupont's Lark (Chersophilus Duponti)

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