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 ( Linnaeus, 1758) - breeds from S Fennoscandia, S Britain, France and N Iberia E to W Russia, Ukraine, N Italy and N Balkans.
- 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 Enlarge map
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A bird walking on sand Locality Forêt de Fontainebleau, France (ssp arborea)
Julien Rochefort 25 March 2007 5 years ago 43 sec 4.6 -
Singing male Locality Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France (ssp arborea)
Alain Fossé 2 July 2009 2 years ago 20 sec 4.3 -
A bird on the ground, walking Locality Forêt de Fontainebleau, France (ssp arborea)
Julien Rochefort 25 March 2007 5 years ago 40 sec 3.9 -
A male perched on a pole, singing Locality Forêt de Fontainebleau, France (ssp arborea)
Julien Rochefort 25 March 2007 5 years ago 26 sec 3.8 -
woodlark calling from the ground before flying into a tree Locality Budby Heath, Nottinghamshire, England, Great Britain
chrisjohnson 2 July 2010 1 year ago 1 min 48 sec 3.7 -
A bird singing Locality Puerto de La Morcuera, Madrid, Spain
Juan Sanabria 1 June 2010 1 year ago 45 sec 3.5
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on a rock
Locality Wadi Meitzar, Golan Heights, Israel
Lior Kislev 1 May 2011 1 year ago 4.4 -
on a rock
Locality Wadi Meitzar, Golan Heights, Israel
Lior Kislev 1 May 2011 28 weeks ago 4.4 -
Wood lark, eating a fly on an oak tree branch, La Cañada, Avila, Spain.
Locality Ávila, Castile and Leon, Spain
juan 31 May 2008 3 years ago 3.6 -
An adult with food
Locality Valladolid, Castile and Leon, Spain (ssp arborea)
CarlosNaza 13 June 2010 1 year ago 3.5 -
adult on a stone
Locality Corsica, France
pascal christe 25 September 2011 29 weeks ago 2.7 -
An adult in the hand.
Locality Segur de Calafell, Tarragona Province, Catalonia, Spain (ssp arborea)
Alberto Soria 2 years ago 2.7
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A male singing. Locality Forêt de Fontainebleau, France
(ssp arborea)
Julien Rochefort 8 February 2008 3 years ago 4.8 -
A male singing from an olive grove Locality Kazdaği (Mount Ida) National Park, Turkey
(ssp pallida)
Stuart Fisher 21 June 2008 2 years ago 4
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