skylark
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A conservator uncovers the shard, which bears an intense blue figure of a skylark — evidence, at least to the reader, that Alouette’s recipe endured, and a symbol of how both she and Sasha escaped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
The authority said seven key species - the adonis blue butterfly, skylark, redshank, yellow horned poppy, ringed plover, bee orchid and wigeon - were "indicators of biodiversity and landscape quality".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2021
Thought for Today: “Who will give me back those days when life had wings and flew just like a skylark in the sky.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2019
Many bird species have also been observed on the site, including the curlew, wigeon, skylark, warbler, ringed plover, and whinchat.
From The Verge ● Jan. 16, 2018
It is not really about the countryside at all; nature is there purely as a metaphor for feelings, as it was for Wordsworth and his daffodils, Shelley with his skylark and Keats with his nightingale.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
The area beside Bloody Bridge Valley, where firefighters tackled a two mile long fire, is a "very important" breeding ground for skylarks.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025
The site has become a key refuge for Eurasian skylarks, a bird that requires open fields that, in the countryside, have been largely overrun by crop monocultures.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 2, 2022
Two skylarks sing and flit above his hat.
From Reuters ● Jul. 25, 2019
Brown hares, skylarks, bee orchids and gray partridges have all returned to Lark Rise Farm, in part because of the creation of five miles of new hedgerow.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2019
Sometimes we sit together the way we did a thousand years ago and we don’t say a word but just listen to the thrushes and the skylarks.
From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
