Turkestan Short-toed Lark

When to see the Turkestan Short-toed Lark

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Turkestan Short-toed Lark

The map shades 24 countries with regular records, and 13 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Finland, Belgium, Jordan, Syria, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Belarus, India, Saudi Arabia, Bulgaria, Norway, Sweden, ZZ.

About the Turkestan Short-toed Lark

The Turkestan short-toed lark is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae. It is found in Ukraine and central Turkey through parts of Central Asia and southern Siberia west to south-central Mongolia and south to southern Afghanistan. This species and the Mediterranean short-toed lark were formerly considered conspecific and called the lesser short-toed lark, but a 2020 study recovered them as distinct species.

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Easily confused with

Mediterranean Short-toed LarkAlaudala rufescensThe Mediterranean short-toed lark is similar in size and appearance to the greater short-toed lark but is generally a duller-looking bird with a more streaked breast. Somali Short-toed LarkAlaudala somalicaThe Somali short-toed lark is a small passerine bird of the lark family found in eastern and north-eastern Africa. Asian Short-toed LarkAlaudala cheleensisThe Asian short-toed lark is a lark in the family Alaudidae.