skylark

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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

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

Frederick whispers that in the spring, he hopes to find skylark nests in the grasses outside the school walls.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr