Larks (Alaudidae)
Woodlark (Lullula arborea) - HBW 9, p. 600
French: Alouette lulu
German: Heidelerche
Spanish: Alondra Totovía
Taxonomy: Alauda arborea Linnaeus, 1758, Sweden.
Genus possibly better merged with Alauda, as structural and behavioural differences between the two probably insufficient to justify splitting them. Yellow-tinged (fresh plumage) birds from Romania described as race flavescens and similar but marginally smaller ones from Crete as wettsteini, both regarded as indistinguishable from pallida. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- arborea (arborea Linnaeus, 1758) - breeds from S Fennoscandia, S Britain, France and N Iberia E to W Russia, Ukraine, N Italy and N Balkans.
- pallida (pallida Zarudny, 1902) - S Europe and NW Africa E (including larger Mediterranean islands) to Turkey, Caucasus, Levant (S to N Israel), Iran and SW Turkmenistan.
- Least Concern
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A bird walking on sand Forêt de Fontainebleau, France (ssp arborea)
Julien Rochefort 25 March 2007 3 years ago 43 sec 4.6 -
Singing male Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France (ssp arborea)
Alain Fossé 2 July 2009 1 year ago 20 sec 4.3 -
A bird on the ground, walking Forêt de Fontainebleau, France (ssp arborea)
Julien Rochefort 25 March 2007 3 years ago 40 sec 3.9 -
A male perched on a pole, singing Forêt de Fontainebleau, France (ssp arborea)
Julien Rochefort 25 March 2007 3 years ago 26 sec 3.8 -
A bird singing Puerto de La Morcuera, Madrid, Spain
Juan Sanabria 1 June 2010 4 weeks ago 45 sec 3.5 -
A bird seen from behind, singing Puerto de La Morcuera, Madrid, Spain
Juan Sanabria 1 June 2010 10 weeks ago 35 sec 3
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Wood lark, eating a fly on an oak tree branch, La Cañada, Avila, Spain. Ávila, Castile and Leon, Spain
juan 31 May 2008 1 year ago 3.5 -
An adult in the hand. Segur de Calafell, Tarragona Province, Catalonia, Spain (ssp arborea)
Alberto Soria 39 weeks ago 2.9 -
Bird on a wire. Siemianowka, Podlaskie Province, Poland
Helmut Schumann 19 May 2009 1 year ago 2.3
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A male singing. Forêt de Fontainebleau, France
(ssp arborea)
Julien Rochefort 8 February 2008 1 year ago 4.8 -
A male singing from an olive grove Kazdaği (Mount Ida) National Park, Turkey
(ssp pallida)
Stuart Fisher 21 June 2008 35 weeks ago 4
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