The Rufous Songlark

Mottled brown wings, tail, back and head, rufous rump, spotted breast and unders of light gray Quite distinctive from other grassland birds in their way In their breeding Season the males fly around their territory in a territorial display In open grassy wooded country known to be nomadic those who know of them does say In their breeding Season from August to April the female bird lay Three to four white eggs with pink speckles in high grass hidden away Birds familiar to many country people in their loud melodious song That from once seen and once heard you never again should get wrong Birds that are to be seen in the wooded countryside And they have a huge range Australia wide Of the grassland birds of Australia not among the better known Since they are quite wary of humans and have ways of their own Nomadic in their ways those who know of them say Of Nature we learn something new every day Songbirds you will not see in any town or city park cinclorhampus mathewsi Australia's rufous songlark.