#1228 · 🐦 birds

Turkestan Short-toed Lark

🇳🇱 Heines Kortteenleeuwerik ·Alaudala heinei

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © egorbirder · CC BY 4.0
2. © Ani Sarkisyan · CC BY 4.0
3. © Илья Сухов · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. 普陀区, 舟山市, 浙江省, CN:© cjhsam · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. г. Алапаевск, Свердловская обл., Россия:© Александр Краснов · CC BY 4.0
6. Дальнеконстантиновский р-н, Нижегородская обл., Россия:© Вячеслав Юсупов · CC BY 4.0
7. 2275, Österreich:© marina_nigrowics · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Яшкульский р-н, Респ. Калмыкия, Россия:© Yelena · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Ахтубинский р-н, Астраханская обл., Россия:© Владимир Семашко · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Отрарский район, Казахстан:© Kudaibergen Amirekul · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The Turkestan short-toed lark ( Alaudala heinei ) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae. It is found in Ukraine and central Turkey through parts of Central Asia and southern Siberia west to south-central Mongolia and south to southern Afghanistan. This species and the Mediterranean short-toed lark ( A. rufescens ) were formerly considered conspecific and called the lesser short-toed lark, but a 2020 study recovered them as distinct species.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 702iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).