Eurasian Skylark

(Alauda arvensis)

Category of conservation concern (IUCN, 2020) – Least Concern

Population size: 800 000 – 2 500 000 pairs

Distribution pattern

Widespread in open terrains throughout the country without mountainous areas and areas with extensive and dense forests. Breeds, also, on the open mountain ridges of Rila, Pirin, Western Rhodopes, Stara Planina and Osogovo Mountains.

Comparative distribution of the species compared to the first breeding birds atlas (Iankov, 2007): Breeding locality until 2007 | Breeding locality until 2007, confirmed after 2015 – | New breeding locality after 2015. – The breeding localities after 2015 are identified on a base of raw data from smartbirds.org.

Habitats

Breeds mainly in crops and other (annual) grasses in pastures, meadows, perennial grasses, wastelands and other open areas, sometimes in alpine and subalpine grasslands, extensive and overgrown with vegetation dunes, and on open areas between residential buildings, the outskirts of large towns, villages and industrial zones.

Trends in population changes for the period 2013-2020

Not analysed

Threats

Not analysed