Greater Short-toed Lark

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Photo by Scottishdude
Location: Track by Lucio del Lobo, Sepulveda, Spain, May, 2010

Calandrella brachydactyla

Distribution

Photo by mikeprince
Juvenile
Belen Plain, Extremadura, Spain, June 2006

Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia
Europe: Scandinavia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, Ibiza, Mallorca, Gibraltar, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, Hungary, Balkans, Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Crete, Corfu, Malta, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova
Northern Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt
Western Africa: Mauritania, Senegambia, Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo
Eastern Africa: Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya
Middle East: Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan
Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran
Asia: Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, GeorgiaSiberia, Turkestan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, China, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, South Korea, Japan
Southeast Asia: Indochina, Myanmar

Taxonomy

Subspecies^[1]

• C. b. brachydactyla:

• Mediterranean environs and islands

• C. b. hungarica:

• Hungary

• C. b. rubiginosa:

• Northern Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia); Malta

• C. b. woltersi:

• North-western Syria and adjacent southern Turkey

• C. b. hermonensis:

• Sinai Peninsula to extreme southern Turkey and eastern Syria

• C. b. artemisiana:

• Asia Minor, Transcaucasia and north-western Iran

• C. b. longipennis (orientalis):

• Caucasus to Ukraine, northern Mongolia and north-eastern China; >eastern Africa

• C. b. dukhunensis:

• Tibet to north-eastern China

Behaviour

Vocalisation

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References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Greater Short-toed Lark. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Greater_Short-toed_Lark

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