Calandra Lark
The Calandra Lark is a large, robust lark which is mainly streaked greyish-brown above and white below and with large black patches on the breast sides and a white supercilium. In flight it shows short broad wings, which are dark below, and a short white-edged tail.
The Calandra Lark breeds in warm temperate countries around the Mediterranean and eastwards through Turkey into northern Iran and southern Russia. It is mainly resident in the west of its range but Russian populations are more migratory and move further south in winter as far as the Arabian peninsula and Egypt. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.
The Calandra Lark is a bird of open cultivation and steppe and nests on the ground. It is gregarious outside the breeding season.
Date: 30th April 2012
Location: south of Brozas, western Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
The Calandra Lark breeds in warm temperate countries around the Mediterranean and eastwards through Turkey into northern Iran and southern Russia. It is mainly resident in the west of its range but Russian populations are more migratory and move further south in winter as far as the Arabian peninsula and Egypt. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.
The Calandra Lark is a bird of open cultivation and steppe and nests on the ground. It is gregarious outside the breeding season.
Date: 30th April 2012
Location: south of Brozas, western Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
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Also in: South and west Spain - April and May 2012
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