skylark

Other newspapers’ nicknames for her — the California nightingale, the California skylark — were not just about her immense vocal range, but about the wonder and novelty that California, of all places, could claim such a woman.

He chalked up the incident as “a case where the skylarking and tomfoolery in an employment context has gone awry.”

He told the court this was a case of "skylarking and tomfoolery" that had "gone awry".

Nightingale, greenfinch, grey partridge, marsh tit, skylark, nightjar and tree pipit - all Red List species - have been recorded.

“Showers of rice” were thrown by “the jolly young people who had been skylarking the afternoon away in the White House,” the New York Times reported.