skylark
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The land has been farmed since 1130 and is home to many declining species such as skylark, yellowhammer, spotted flycatcher and water voles.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Frogs croak, a skylark soars above all in dazzling pianistic glitter, grasshopper warblers rattle as their names suggest, and one reed warbler enters into a rapturous contrapuntal duet with another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 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
Ha, I’m about as trapped as a skylark in the air on a clear day!
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
"The ground nesting birds, like the skylarks and the meadow pipits, the wrens and stonechats, they'll have lost their nests and eggs."
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
As kites and skylarks fly above his fields, Cherry says he first became interested in conservation agriculture – or no-till farming – after speaking to others who were trying it.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 24, 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
