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

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

Its 99-million-year-old feathers range from white and brown to dark grey in color, and the researchers have nicknamed the young enantiornithine 'Belone', after a Burmese name for the amber-hued Oriental skylark.

From National Geographic • Jun. 7, 2017

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