Asian/Mediterranean/Turkestan Short-toed Lark (group)
Alaudala cheleenis/rufescens/heinei (Vieillot, 1819) (0, 1)
Photo © Kris Webb
STATUS
Southern Europe, Canary Islands, north Africa and the Levant to western Iraq. Polytypic.
OVERVIEW
Formerly known as Lesser Short-toed Lark but now split into three full species. However, from the note supplied this individual could not be assigned (BOURC 2024), Ibis 57: in prep.
BBRC RECORD
1). 1992 Dorset Portland Bill, 2nd May.
(I. Dickie, Birding World 5 (5): 179-180; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 88: 527; I. R. Dickie & K. E. Vinicombe, British Birds 88: 593-599; Birding World 5: 179-180; BOURC (1997), Ibis 139: 198).
