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Oriental Skylark
Alauda gulgula · Family Alaudidae
Alauda gulgula
Family Alaudidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Alaudidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 125,351
- Countries and territories with records
- 41
About this species
This species has 125,351 occurrence records from 41 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (50.4%), India (31.3%), China (5.1%), Thailand (3.8%) and Sri Lanka (2%); together they account for 92.6% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Alauda gulgula combines the genus name Alauda with the species epithet gulgula. The Warbla app catalog lists 4 species of the genus Alauda; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Alauda arvensis, Alauda leucoptera and Alauda razae.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 76 species of the family Alaudidae. This species ranks 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Alauda arvensis. Its record count is close to the family average (121,209). The family Alaudidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.