🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Greater Short-toed Lark live?

Calandrella brachydactyla has 140,664 records in 110 countries and territories, from 1836 to 2026. Most records come from Spain.

AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesAlaudidaeCalandrella

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Spain 46,429
India 19,047
Portugal 12,605
France 8,740
Israel 8,360
Türkiye 6,010
Sweden 4,495
Morocco 3,788
Greece 2,942
United Arab Emirates 2,941
Cyprus 1,896
Georgia 1,799
Netherlands 1,470
United Kingdom 1,432
Kazakhstan 1,429
Norway 1,349
Egypt 1,299
Bulgaria 1,174
Italy 1,046
Kuwait 948
Mongolia 644
Russia 630
Oman 607
Romania 587
Germany 538
Iran 533
Azerbaijan 457
Ukraine 437
Saudi Arabia 427
China 408
Malta 377
Denmark 370
Uzbekistan 312
Qatar 285
Nepal 284
Armenia 248
Finland 241
Palestine 235
Tunisia 227
Albania 210

Showing the top 40 of 110 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.