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Crested Lark - Galerida cristata - Kuifleeuwerik
Europe, Asia and parts of North-Africa.
The following 33 subspecies are being recognized:
Galerida cristata pallida - Iberian Peninsula;
Galerida cristata cristata - Central-Europe to Slovenia, Belarus, North-Hungary and North-Ukraine;
Galerida cristata neumanni - Italy (Toscane to Rome area);
Galerida cristata apuliae - South peninsular Italy and Sicily;
Galerida cristata meridionalis - South-Yugoslavia to mainland Greece, Ionian Islands, Crete and West-Turkey;
Galerida cristata cypriaca - Kárpathos, Rhodes and Cyprus;
Galerida cristata tenuirostris - East-Hungary and Romania to South-Russia and West-Kazakhstan;
Galerida cristata caucasica - East-Aegean Islands, North-Turkey, South-Caucasus and West-Transcaucasia;
Galerida cristata kleinschmidti - Northwest-Morocco;
Galerida cristata riggenbachi - West-Morocco;
Galerida cristata carthagnis - Coastal Northeast-Morocco to North-Tunesia;
Galerida cristata arenicola - Northeast-Algerian Sahara to South-Tunesia and West-Libya;
Galerida cristata festae - Coastal Northeast-Libya;
Galerida cristata brachyura - Northeast-Libya to coastal North-Egypt, North-Sinai, North-Saudi-Arabia and South-Iraq;
Galerida cristata helenae - Southeast-Algeria and Southwest-Libya;
Galerida cristata jordansi - North-Niger;
Galerida cristata nigricans - Nile Delta in North-Egypt;
Galerida cristata maculata - Egypt (Nile valley from Cairo to Aswan);
Galerida cristata halfae - Egypt (Nile valley south of Aswan) and North-Sudan;
Galerida cristata altirostris - East-Sudan and Eritrea;
Galerida cristata somaliensis - North-Somalia, South-Ethiopia and North-Kenya;
Galerida cristata balsaci - Coastal Mauritania;
Galerida cristata senegallensis - South-Mauritania, Senegambia and Guinea-Bissau to Niger;
Galerida cristata alexanderi - North-Nigeria to West-Sudan and Northeast-Zaïre;
Galerida cristata isabellina - Central-Sudan;
Galerida cristata cinnamomina - West-Lebanon and Northwest-Israel;
Galerida cristata zion - South-Turkey, Syria, East-Lebanon and East-Israel;
Galerida cristata subtaurica - Central-Turkey to South-Transcaucasia, Northwest-Iran, West-Turkmenistan and East-Iraq;
Galerida cristata magna - Central-Iran and -Turkmenistan to Northwest-Pakistan, Kazakhstan, South-Mongolia and Northwest-China;
Galerida cristata leautungensis - Manchuria and Northeast-China;
Galerida cristata coreensis - Korea;
Galerida cristata lynesi - North-Kasmir
Galerida cristata chendoola - South-Kasmir to East-Pakistan, West- and North-India and South-Nepal.
Of this species there are no Zoo Photo's available.