A more sustained and melodious minstrel than the Eastern Meadowlark, with notes and tempo approaching the melody of Rosebreast Grosbeaks. I have never lived on western prairies but can easily understand the affection held for these birds by settlers in those treeless regions. After bleak Winters, their music must seem, in all truth, like voices from a heaven beyond the blue where they soar and sing.
Western North America from southern British Provinces, south thru United States. East to Wisconsin, Michigan and northern Illinois.