Calandra lark

Calandra lark
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Alaudidae
Genus: Melanocorypha
Species:
M. calandra
Binomial name
Melanocorypha calandra
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Synonyms
  • Alauda calandra Linnaeus, 1766
Eggs of Melanocorypha calandra MHNT

The calandra lark (Melanocorypha calandra) or European calandra-lark breeds in warm temperate countries around the Mediterranean and eastwards through Turkey into northern Iran and southern Russia. It is replaced further east by its relative, the bimaculated lark.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Melanocorypha calandra". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22717285A87485192. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22717285A87485192.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.