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[[Image:Greater short toed Lark3.jpg|thumb|520px|right|Photo by {{user|Scottishdude|Scottishdude}}<br />Track by Lucio del Lobo, Sepulveda, [[Spain]], May, 2010]]
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[[Image:greater_short-toed_lark_alok.JPG|thumb|550px|right|Subspecies ''C. b. longipennis''<br />Photo &copy; by {{user|aloktewari|Alok Tewari}}<br />Gurgaon Rural, Haryana, [[India]], 26 February 2018]]
 
;[[:Category:Calandrella|Calandrella]] brachydactyla
 
;[[:Category:Calandrella|Calandrella]] brachydactyla
'''Includes: Syke's Short-toed Lark'''
 
 
==Identification==
 
==Identification==
 
14–15 cm<br />
 
14–15 cm<br />
 
A short-billed lark with long [[Topography#Wings|tertials]]
 
A short-billed lark with long [[Topography#Wings|tertials]]
 
==Distribution==
 
==Distribution==
[[Image:1181200606041734E ShorttoedLark.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Juvenile<br />Photo by {{user|mikeprince|mikeprince }}<br />Belen Plain, Extremadura, [[Spain]], June 2006 ]]
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[[Image:Greater short toed Lark3.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Photo &copy; by {{user|Scottishdude|Scottishdude}}<br />Track by Lucio del Lobo, Sepulveda, [[Spain]], May, 2010]]
 
[[Europe]], [[Africa]], [[Middle East]], [[Asia]]<br />
 
[[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 />
 
'''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]]
 
'''Southeast Asia''': [[Indochina]], [[Myanmar]]
 
==Taxonomy==
 
==Taxonomy==
Clements now splits ''dukhunensis'' as '''Syke's Short-toed Lark'''.
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[[Image:1181200606041734E ShorttoedLark.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Juvenile<br />Photo &copy; by {{user|mikeprince|mikeprince }}<br />Belen Plain, Extremadura, [[Spain]], June 2006 ]]
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[[Mongolian Short-toed Lark]] was formerly included in this species.
 
====Subspecies====
 
====Subspecies====
There are 8 subspecies<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>:
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There are 7 subspecies<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>:
 
*''C. b. brachydactyla'':
 
*''C. b. brachydactyla'':
 
:*Mediterranean environs and islands
 
:*Mediterranean environs and islands
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*''C. b. longipennis (orientalis)'':
 
*''C. b. longipennis (orientalis)'':
 
:*Caucasus to [[Ukraine]], northern [[Mongolia]] and north-eastern [[China]]; >eastern [[Africa]]
 
:*Caucasus to [[Ukraine]], northern [[Mongolia]] and north-eastern [[China]]; >eastern [[Africa]]
*''C. b. dukhunensis'':
 
:*[[Tibet]] to north-eastern [[China]]
 
 
==Habitat==
 
==Habitat==
 
Semi-arid farm land, fields, short-grass steppe and desert scrub.  
 
Semi-arid farm land, fields, short-grass steppe and desert scrub.  
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A wide variety of invertebrates, seeds and green vegetable matter.
 
A wide variety of invertebrates, seeds and green vegetable matter.
 
====Vocalisation====
 
====Vocalisation====
<flashmp3>Calandrella brachydactyla (song).mp3</flashmp3><br />
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{{ Audio|Calandrella brachydactyla (song).mp3 }}
''[[Media:Calandrella brachydactyla (song).mp3|Listen in an external program]]''
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==References==
 
==References==
#{{Ref-Clements6thAug16}}#Avibase
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#{{Ref-Clements6thAug17}}#Avibase
 
#Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved September 2014)
 
#Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved September 2014)
 
#BF Member observations
 
#BF Member observations
 
{{ref}}
 
{{ref}}
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
{{GSearch|Calandrella+brachydactyla}}
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{{GSearch|"Calandrella brachydactyla" {{!}} "Greater Short-toed Lark"}}
[[Category:Birds]][[Category:Calandrella]][[Category:Bird Songs]]
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Latest revision as of 19:23, 7 June 2023

Subspecies C. b. longipennis
Photo © by Alok Tewari
Gurgaon Rural, Haryana, India, 26 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, GeorgiaSiberia, 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

Mongolian 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:
  • C. b. rubiginosa:
  • C. b. woltersi:
  • C. b. hermonensis:
  • C. b. artemisiana:
  • Asia Minor, Transcaucasia and north-western Iran
  • C. b. longipennis (orientalis):

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

References

  1. 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/
  2. Avibase
  3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved September 2014)
  4. BF Member observations

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External Links


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