Nest-site selection may affect nest predation rates. In this paper we analyse nest-site habitat selection in the Thekla and Lesser Short-toed larks, and compare the habitats of successful and predated nests. Both species have a preference for safe sites. At present, however, there are not habitat differences between successful and predated nests. This is probably because nest predation has acted as an extremely high selective pressure on ground nesting steppe birds. We may thus assume that nest placements which facilitate predation must have been eliminated by this pressure in evolutive time.