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Where does the Crested Lark live?

Galerida cristata has 986,606 records in 112 countries and territories, from 1820 to 2026. Most records come from Spain.

Crested Lark
Crested Lark — El Golli Mohamed / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesAlaudidaeGalerida

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. 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 395,594
Portugal 121,343
Israel 87,160
France 64,771
Türkiye 43,745
Greece 35,406
United Arab Emirates 27,925
India 27,584
Italy 13,563
Bulgaria 11,662
Morocco 11,413
Cyprus 11,064
Iran 10,149
Netherlands 8,600
Oman 6,146
Sweden 5,879
Palestine 5,588
Kuwait 5,375
Ukraine 4,949
Hungary 4,862
Saudi Arabia 4,663
Georgia 4,553
Russia 4,359
Denmark 4,330
Senegal 4,104
Germany 3,964
Romania 3,937
Belgium 3,799
Jordan 3,001
Poland 2,715
Croatia 2,681
Nigeria 2,606
Azerbaijan 2,537
Iraq 2,482
Qatar 2,389
Uzbekistan 2,065
Kazakhstan 2,052
Austria 1,895
Egypt 1,822
Tunisia 1,791

Showing the top 40 of 112 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.