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Greater Short-toed Lark
Calandrella brachydactyla · Family Alaudidae
Calandrella brachydactyla
Family Alaudidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Alaudidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 141,784
- Countries and territories with records
- 112
About this species
This species has 141,784 occurrence records from 112 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Spain (32.8%), India (13.4%), Portugal (9%), France (6.2%) and Israel (5.9%); together they account for 67.4% of the total. In Spain, this species accounts for 0.089% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Calandrella brachydactyla combines the genus name Calandrella with the species epithet brachydactyla. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Calandrella; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Calandrella cinerea, Calandrella dukhunensis and Calandrella acutirostris.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 76 species of the family Alaudidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Alauda arvensis. Its record count is 1.2 times the family average (121,209). The family Alaudidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.