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

Calandrella brachydactyla

Distribution

Juvenile
Photo by mikeprince
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 14 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Greater_Short-toed_Lark

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