skylark
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The reserve is home to species including grey partridge, lapwing, skylark, grasshopper warbler and willow tit.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
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
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
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"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
Grasshoppers, sand lizards, nightingales, and skylarks that are declining or threatened elsewhere have been found thriving in the city’s green spaces.
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
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