The spectacular display flight of this acrobatic bird begins when he soars into the air in a skylark to a height of 800 feet. Then, singing away with tinkling notes of pit-wit, wee-pit, pit-wee, he circles, closes his wings and drops headfirst zooming almost to the ground where he opens his wings at the very last second. He then proudly struts around his female with wings drooped and horns erect. She is totally impressed and busily sets about creating their grass nest near clumps of dirt or manure and lines it with feathers before she lays their two to five greenish-gray eggs.