Greater Short-toed Lark, Calandrella brachydactyla, is a species of passerine bird in the lark family found in cropland, grassland and heathland and shrub ecosystems. It is a widespread summer visitor to southern and southeastern Europe where it breeds. This species prefers dry areas with low and sparse vegetation cover, on level or undulating terrain, with sandy or stony soils. In the Mediterranean basin it breeds mostly in fallow lands but also on dry pastures, tobacco fields, dirt tracks and olive groves (European Red List 2015).

Calandrella brachydactyla has a breeding population size of 1170000-1860000 pairs and a breeding range size of 727000 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Stable in the short term and Decreasing in the long term.

The EU population status of Calandrella brachydactyla was assessed as Depleted, because the EU27 population or range declined by at least 20% since 1980, but has no longer been declining since 2001.