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title: "Theklaleeuwerik"
description: "Galerida theklae — Vogels. Thekla's lark (Galerida theklae), also known as the Thekla lark, is a species of lark that breeds on the Iberian Peninsula and in North and East Africa south to Kenya."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/thekla-s-lark
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Theklaleeuwerik

> Galerida theklae — Vogels. Thekla's lark (Galerida theklae), also known as the Thekla lark, is a species of lark that breeds on the Iberian Peninsula and in North and East Africa south to Kenya.

- Scientific name: *Galerida theklae*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Weiden en velden), `desert` (Woestijn)
- iNaturalist observations: 5837
- Wikidata: [Q851570](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q851570)
- iNaturalist taxon: [7359](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/7359)

## Names

- en: Thekla's Lark
- de: Theklalerche
- es: Cogujada montesina
- fr: Cochevis de Thékla
- nl: Theklaleeuwerik
- pt: Cotovia-montesina
- pl: Dzierlatka iberyjska

## Countries with the most observations

ES (3281), MA (705), PT (650), DZ (407), ET (76), EH (42), FR (34), TN (19), KE (13), SO (4), ER (3)

## Summary

Thekla's lark (Galerida theklae), also known as the Thekla lark, is a species of lark that breeds on the Iberian Peninsula and in North and East Africa south to Kenya. It is a sedentary (non-migratory) species. This is a common bird of dry open country, often at some altitude. Thekla's lark was named by Alfred Edmund Brehm in 1857 for his recently deceased sister Thekla Brehm (1833–1857). The name is a modern Greek one, Θέκλα (Thekla), which comes from ancient Greek Θεόκλεια (Theokleia) derived from θεός (theos, "god") and κλέος (kleos, "glory" or "honour"). The population is declining in parts of Spain, but this…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thekla%27s_lark

## Photo

![Theklaleeuwerik](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/thekla-s-lark/medium.jpg)

Photo: Nikhil R R · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/285073911

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/thekla-s-lark?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).