Mediterranean Short-toed Lark

Alaudala rufescens

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

Calandrella rufescens → Alaudala rufescens

Genus transfer — GBIF Backbone Taxonomy uses the former name; AviList 2025 uses the current name.

Mehmet Baran · CC_BY_4_0

Jens Bokelaar · CC_BY_4_0

Alaudala rufescens apetzii

southern Iberian Peninsula
Alaudala rufescens minor

northern Africa (from Morocco eastward to Egypt) and from southern Türkiye southward to the Sinai Peninsula and eastward to Iraq
Alaudala rufescens rufescens

Canary Islands (Tenerife, where perhaps extirpated, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote)

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.