#1003 · 🐦 birds
Calandra Lark
🇳🇱 Kalanderleeuwerik ·Melanocorypha calandra
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what is it?
The calandra lark ( Melanocorypha calandra ) or European calandra-lark breeds in warm temperate countries around the Mediterranean and eastwards through Turkey into northern Iran and southern Russia. It is replaced further east by its relative, the bimaculated lark.
base stats
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).
fun facts
- Spotted 1 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,494 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 63 g.
- Scientifically named in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Calandra Lark
- Nederlands
- Kalanderleeuwerik
- scientific name
- Melanocorypha calandra
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Alaudidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 1
- sightings in Europe
- 2,370
- sightings worldwide
- 3,494
- GBIF records in NL
- 550
- weight
- 63 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Alaudidae
#0658 📷 10Eurasian Skylark
🇳🇱 Veldleeuwerik
Alauda arvensis
LC 👀 256 in NL
#0660 📷 7Woodlark
🇳🇱 Boomleeuwerik
Lullula arborea
LC 👀 254 in NL
#0726 📷 10Horned Lark
🇳🇱 Strandleeuwerik
Eremophila alpestris
LC 👀 93 in NL
#0881 📷 10Crested Lark
🇳🇱 Kuifleeuwerik
Galerida cristata
LC 👀 7 in NL
#1008 📷 10Greater Short-toed Lark
🇳🇱 Kortteenleeuwerik
Calandrella brachydactyla
LC 👀 1 in NL
#1156 📷 7Thekla's Lark
🇳🇱 Thekla’s Leeuwerik
Galerida theklae
LC 🌍 6k seen
#1227 📷 8Mediterranean Short-toed Lark
🇳🇱 Kleine Kortteenleeuwerik
Alaudala rufescens
LC 🌍 710 seen
#1228 📷 10Turkestan Short-toed Lark
🇳🇱 Heines Kortteenleeuwerik
Alaudala heinei
LC 🌍 702 seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 7367, Wikidata Q470853, GBIF 2490613, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.