English: Black Lark
Russian: Чёрный жаворонок
Mongolian: Харалдай болжмор
German: Mohrenlerche
French:  Alouette negre 
Japanese:  クロコウテンシ (Kuro-kotenshi)

Body length: 18-20 ½ cm. Breeds on natural steppe, often near marshes and saltpans. Locally common. Partly migratory.

Identification:

• Adult ♂: Large, all back, with bill heavy and straw-coloured; in autumn, pale fringes cover much of black. Song-flight often with wingbeats in slow motion. Display-flight at low level with very high, stiff wingbeats or dove-like glides; tumbles down to court ♀ with raised tail and lowered wings and neck.
• Adult ♀: Brown-grey, blotched dark; plumage rather variable, some resemble Calandra Lark, having a larger dark patch on side of breast. Note, however, dark legs, no wide white trailing edge of wing, and usually obvious blotching below. Underwing-coverts almost black, clearly darker than wing-feathers.