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Crested Lark
Galerida cristata · Family Alaudidae
Galerida cristata
Family Alaudidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Alaudidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 992,733
- Countries and territories with records
- 111
About this species
This species has 992,733 occurrence records from 111 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Spain (39.9%), Portugal (12.4%), Israel (8.8%), France (6.5%) and Türkiye (4.4%); together they account for 72% of the total. In Spain, this species accounts for 0.76% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Galerida cristata combines the genus name Galerida with the species epithet cristata. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Galerida; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Galerida theklae, Galerida magnirostris and Galerida malabarica.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 76 species of the family Alaudidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Alauda arvensis. Its record count is 8.2 times the family average (121,209). The family Alaudidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.