The Eastern Meadowlark lives in grasslands and farmland in eastern North America and searches for food on the ground.
Its back is mottled brown and black, while the underside is yellow with a bold black V across the chest.
Eastern Meadowlarks breed in grasslands. Scott D. Hull and colleagues reviewed earlier research on grassland bird management and summarised the vegetation reported at Eastern Meadowlark sites. Across those studies, average vegetation height ranged from 10 to 187 centimetres, grass cover from 53 to 86 percent, and forb cover from 4 to 50 percent.
The reviewed sites had no more than 4 percent shrub cover. The report’s management summary highlights large, connected grasslands with moderate vegetation height, strong grass cover, and moderate forb density. The measurements come from several studies and show a range of grassland conditions used by the species rather than one fixed height or cover value.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
A USGS review identifies large connected grasslands, moderate vegetation height, substantial grass cover, and moderate forb density as key management features.