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Turkestan Short-toed Lark
Alaudala heinei (Homeyer, 1873)
Alaudidae — Larks
Turkestan Short-toed Lark, Alaudala heinei, is a lark of the family Alaudidae that breeds from Romania, Ukraine and central Turkey east to south Mongolia, north-east and east Arabia, and southern Afghanistan. It was once treated as part of the Mediterranean Short-toed Lark under the name lesser short-toed lark, but a 2020 study separated the two as distinct species. Four subspecies are recognised, with forms recorded in eastern Turkey, Transcaucasia, northern Iran, Ukraine, eastern Kazakhstan, central Turkey, and from Iraq to Afghanistan.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Alaudidae — Larks
- Breeding range
- Palearctic: ne Romania, Ukraine and c Turkey to sc Mongolia, ne, e Arabian Peninsula and s Afghanistan
