North-African Short-toed Lark
A Short-toed Lark was found on 23rd May 2013 in a field in Zoetermeer
near The Hague in The Netherlands. As can be seen in the pictures the
bird had a strikingly reddish-coloured crown and even a pale pinkish
rump. A picture of the bird has now been published in the new Handbook
of Western Palearctic Birds, part 1 (Helm Bloomsbury, 2018) , on
pp.63-64. The authors mr. Shirihai & Svensson made it clear that the
bird belonged to the North-African population hence it’s name
C.b.hermonensis syn rubiginosa woltersi. There is to my knowledge no
previous record of this taxon in Europe with the exception of Malta.
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