Data Sheet Info

Horned Lark, Eremophila alpestris, is a species of passerine bird in the lark family found in heathland and shrub and unvegetated or sparsely vegetated land ecosystems.

Eremophila alpestris has a breeding population size of 5200-8000 pairs and a breeding range size of 26100 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Decreasing in the short term and Stable in the long term.

The EU population status of Eremophila alpestris was assessed as Near Threatened, because the species comes close to meeting the IUCN Red List criteria at the EU27 scale.