Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Vieillot, LJP 1819)

Reference:
   Nouv. Dict. Hist. Nat. nouv. éd. 29 p.516

Protonym:
  A[lauda] rufescens

Type locality:
  Tenerife, Canary Islands.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63937#page/538/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  7C5E002F4DEE66A6

Avibase ID:
  avibase-7C5E002F

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/7C5E002F

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 558985

Geographic range:

• Alaudala rufescens [rufescens or polatzeki]: Canary Islands (Tenerife, where perhaps extirpated, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, and Lanzarote)
• Alaudala rufescens [minor or nicolli]: northern Africa (from Morocco eastward to Egypt) and from southern Türkiye southward to the Sinai Peninsula and eastward to Iraq
• Alaudala rufescens apetzii: southern Iberian Peninsula
• Alaudala heinei [heinei or pseudobaetica]: breeds from Ukraine and eastern Türkiye eastward to eastern Kazakhstan and (disjunctly?) to southern Mongolia; wintering in the Middle East and southwestern Asia
• Alaudala heinei persica: southern Iraq and Iran to southeastern Afghanistan
• Alaudala heinei [aharonii or niethammeri]: breeds central Türkiye (Anatolian high plateau); partially migratory, wintering to central Syria
• Alaudala cheleensis [cheleensis, kukunoorensis, beicki, stegmanni or tangutica]: northern Qinghai and northern Gansu through northern Mongolia, and northeastern China (central and eastern Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang) and adjacent parts of southern Siberia; the Mongolian populations are largely migratory, although they probably winter within the range of the subspecies
• Alaudala cheleensis leucophaea: apparently mainly resident in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan (south of the Kyzylkum Desert), and western and southern Kazakhstan, eastward to Lake Balkhash and the Fergana Basin
• Alaudala cheleensis seebohmi: northwestern China (Xinjiang) and adjacent Mongolia
• Alaudala cheleensis tuvinica: southern Siberia (Tuva Republic) and northwestern Mongolia
• Alaudala somalica somalica: eastern Ethiopia to northern Somalia
• Alaudala somalica megaensis: southern Ethiopia
• Alaudala somalica perconfusa: central and western plateau of northern Somalia
• Alaudala somalica athensis: Kenya and northeastern Tanzania
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