Turkestan Short-toed Lark (Alaudala heinei)
About the Turkestan Short-toed Lark
The Turkestan short-toed lark (Alaudala heinei) 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 (A. rufescens) were formerly considered conspecific and called the lesser short-toed lark, but a 2020 study recovered them as distinct species. The genus name Alaudala is the diminutive of Alauda. The specific name heinei commemorates the German ornithologist Ferdinand Heine. Four subspecies are recognized: Alaudala heinei pseudobaetica - (Stegmann, 1932): Found in eastern Turkey, Transcaucasia and northern Iran Alaudala heinei heinei - (Homeyer, 1873): Found from Ukraine to eastern Kazakhstan
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Listed as recorded in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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- Asian Short-toed LarkAlaudala cheleensisrecording
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