Lesser Short-toed Lark - Alouette pispolette by GiMi53
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Description
Continuing my series about the birds seen earlier this month in Fuerteventura,one of the Canary Islands:
The Lesser Short-toed Lark (Calandrella rufescens) is a small passerine bird. It breeds in Spain, north Africa, also including Turkey eastwards across the semi-deserts of central Asia to Mongolia and China.
Many populations, including the Spanish and African breeders, are sedentary, but some Asian birds from the north of the breeding range migrate south in winter. This species is a very rare wanderer to northern and western Europe.
This is a bird of dry open country, preferring even drier and barer soils than Greater Short-toed Lark.
L’Alouette pispolette (Calandrella rufescens) est une espèce de passereaux de la famille des Alaudidae.Cette espèce niche en Espagne, en Afrique du Nord et depuis la Turquie, à travers les zones semi-arides d'Asie centrale jusqu'à la Mongolie et la Chine.
Thank you very much for your comments & favs on my previous upload in this series:
"Redshanks – Chevaliers gambettes"

Comments (16)
what a lovely bird, very nice portrait and light,ciao
Lovely portrait of this little bird!
You made some brilliant captures on your trip and great info on all of them.
Lovely capture of a precious little bird.
Perfect beauty, as always. I admire your ability to get such sharp focus in your bird photos.
wonderful!
Super capture!
beautiful capture
Cool shot and great information thanks for sharing
lovely bird shot, beautiful image
Great capture!
Truly excellent capture of this little beauty!
A very good photo capture!
S-U-P-E-R-B! I thank you for this one. I want to see more from you. 5+!
Thank you for your comments & favs; my next upload in this series:
"Egyptian Vulture – Vautour percnoptère"
Beautiful bird ! Wonderful phot , Michel !