A lark of open, dry country in Indochina. Its short tail and dark streaks on the chest help distinguish it.
A short-tailed lark with a streaked brown back and prominent black streaks on the chest.
It uses dry fields and grasslands dotted with small trees or bushes. It readily perches in vegetation and gives cricket-like trills from the ground, a perch, or in flight.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.