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Subspecies C. b. longipennis
Photo by Alok Tewari
Gurgaon Rural, Haryana, India, February-2018

Calandrella brachydactyla

Identification

14–15 cm
A short-billed lark with long tertials

Distribution

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

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, Georgia Siberia, Turkestan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Mongolia, China, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, South Korea, Japan
Southeast Asia: Indochina, Myanmar

Taxonomy

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

Syke's Short-toed Lark was formerly included in this species.

Subspecies

There are 7 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

Habitat

Semi-arid farm land, fields, short-grass steppe and desert scrub.

Behaviour

Diet

A wide variety of invertebrates, seeds and green vegetable matter.

Vocalisation

<flashmp3>Calandrella brachydactyla (song).mp3</flashmp3>
Listen in an external program

References

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Avibase
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved September 2014)
BF Member observations

List of references

Recommended Citation

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Greater Short-toed Lark. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 20 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Greater_Short-toed_Lark

External Links

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-[[Image:Greater short toed Lark3.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by {{user|Scottishdude|Scottishdude}}<br />Location: Track by Lucio del Lobo, [[Sepulveda]], [[Spain]],  May, 2010]]
 ;[[:Category:Calandrella|Calandrella]] brachydactyla
 ==Identification==
+–15 cm<br />
+A short-billed lark with long [[Topography#Wings|tertials]]
 ==Distribution==
-[[Image:1181200606041734E ShorttoedLark.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Photo by {{user|mikeprince|mikeprince }}<br />Juvenile<br />Belen Plain, Extremadura, [[Spain]], June 2006 ]]
+[[Image:Greater short toed Lark3.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Photo by {{user|Scottishdude|Scottishdude}}<br />Track by Lucio del Lobo, Sepulveda, [[Spain]],  May, 2010]]
 [[Europe]], [[Africa]], [[Middle East]], [[Asia]]<br />
 '''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]]<br />
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 '''Southeast Asia''': [[Indochina]], [[Myanmar]]
 ==Taxonomy==
-====Subspecies<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>====
+[[Image:1181200606041734E ShorttoedLark.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Juvenile<br />Photo by {{user|mikeprince|mikeprince }}<br />Belen Plain, Extremadura, [[Spain]], June 2006 ]]
+[[Syke's Short-toed Lark]] was formerly included in this species.
+====Subspecies====
+There are 7 subspecies<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>:
 *''C. b. brachydactyla'':
 :*Mediterranean environs and islands
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 *''C. b. longipennis (orientalis)'':
 :*Caucasus to [[Ukraine]], northern [[Mongolia]] and north-eastern [[China]]; >eastern [[Africa]]
-*''C. b. dukhunensis'':
-:*[[Tibet]] to north-eastern [[China]]
 ==Habitat==
+Semi-arid farm land, fields, short-grass steppe and desert scrub.
 ==Behaviour==
+====Diet====
+A wide variety of invertebrates, seeds and green vegetable matter.
 ====Vocalisation====
 <flashmp3>Calandrella brachydactyla (song).mp3</flashmp3><br />
 ''[[Media:Calandrella brachydactyla (song).mp3|Listen in an external program]]''
 ==References==
-#{{Ref-Clements6thDec08}}#Avibase
+#{{Ref-Clements6thAug17}}#Avibase
+#Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved September 2014)
+#BF Member observations
 {{ref}}
 ==External Links==
 {{GSearch|Calandrella+brachydactyla}}
-[[Category:Birds]][[Category:Calandrella]][[Category:Bird Songs]]
+<br />
+{{Video|Greater_Short_toed_lark}}
+[[Category:Birds]][[Category:Calandrella][[Category:Videos]]][[Category:Bird Songs]]

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