---
title: "Kalandra szara"
description: "Melanocorypha calandra — Ptaki. The calandra lark (Melanocorypha calandra) or European calandra-lark breeds in warm temperate countries around the Mediterranean and eastwards through Turkey into northern Iran and southern Russia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/calandra-lark
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Kalandra szara

> Melanocorypha calandra — Ptaki. The calandra lark (Melanocorypha calandra) or European calandra-lark breeds in warm temperate countries around the Mediterranean and eastwards through Turkey into northern Iran and southern Russia.

- Scientific name: *Melanocorypha calandra*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Łąki i pola)
- iNaturalist observations: 3463
- Wikidata: [Q470853](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q470853)
- iNaturalist taxon: [7367](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/7367)

## Names

- en: Calandra Lark
- de: Kalanderlerche
- es: Calandria común
- fr: Alouette calandre
- nl: Kalanderleeuwerik
- pt: Calhandra-real
- pl: Kalandra szara

## Countries with the most observations

RU (989), ES (706), UA (318), KZ (249), PT (142), TR (139), GE (124), DZ (103), FR (49), GR (39), RO (34), IT (24)

## Summary

The calandra lark (Melanocorypha calandra) or European calandra-lark breeds in warm temperate countries around the Mediterranean and eastwards through Turkey into northern Iran and southern Russia. It is replaced further east by its relative, the bimaculated lark.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calandra_lark

## Photo

![Kalandra szara](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/calandra-lark/medium.jpg)

Photo: Nikita Gerasin · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/256293576

## Machine access

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