Bimaculated Lark
Introduction
Bimaculated Lark is a large, chunky lark with a heavy bill; there have been only a handful of records this central Asian bird in Britain.
Key Stats
Status and Trends
Conservation Status
Population Size
Population Change
Population trends of this scarce species are not routinely monitored.
Distribution
This vagrant has not been recorded in the UK for many decades and as such cannot be mapped.
Distribution Change
This vagrant is too rarely reported to map distribution change.
Seasonality
This species has been too rarely reported to BirdTrack during 2011–22 to properly assess seasonality.
Movement
Britain & Ireland movement
Biology
Survival and Longevity
Survival is shown as the proportion of birds surviving from one year to the next and is derived from bird ringing data. It can also be used to estimate how long birds typically live.
Classification, names and codes
Classification and Codes
- Order: Passeriformes
- Family: Alaudidae
- Scientific name: Melanocorypha bimaculata
- Authority: Ménétriés, 1832
- BTO 5-letter code: BIMLA
- Euring code number: 9620
Alternate species names
- Catalan: calàndria bimaculada
- Czech: kalandra dvouskvrnná
- Danish: Østlig Kalanderlærke
- Dutch: Bergkalanderleeuwerik
- Estonian: nõlva-stepilõoke
- Finnish: ylänkökiuru
- French: Alouette monticole
- German: Bergkalanderlerche
- Hungarian: hegyi kalandrapacsirta
- Icelandic: Misturlævirki
- Italian: Calandra asiatica
- Latvian: divpunktu cirulis
- Lithuanian: dvidemis stepinis vieversys
- Norwegian: Fjellkalanderlerke
- Polish: kalandra dwuplamista
- Portuguese: calhandra-bastarda
- Slovak: škovran dvojškvrnový
- Slovenian: gorski kalander
- Spanish: Calandria bimaculada
- Swedish: asiatisk kalanderlärka
More Evidence
More evidence from Conservation Evidence.com
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