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The Eurasian Skylark is a small, streaked brown bird with a distinctive crest that can be raised when alert. Its upperparts are mottled brown, while the underparts are pale buff with dark streaks on the breast. Both sexes look similar, with males slightly larger. In flight, the skylark shows white outer tail feathers and trailing edges on the ...
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Diet in North America not known in detail. In Europe, feeds mostly on seeds of grasses and weeds, grain in agricultural fields, and leaves of various ground plants. Also eats many insects (including beetles, caterpillars, and others) and some spiders, millipedes, and snails, mostly in summer. Young birds are fed mostly insects at first.
Identification. Like most larks, often inconspicuous on the ground and best detected by voice. The prolonged warbling and trilling song is given in flight, often so far overhead that the bird appears as a speck, if you can even see it. On the ground, note brown streaky plumage, distinct bushy crest, and broad, diffuse paler eyering.
The Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis) is a small passerine bird found across Europe, Asia, and northern Africa. It measures about 18-19 cm (7.1-7.5 in) in length with a wingspan of 30-36 cm (11.8-14.2 in) and weighs approximately 25-45 grams (0.9-1.6 oz). This species has a streaked brown back, a pale underside, and a small crest on its head ...
Mar 4, 2020 · PROTONYM: Alauda arvensis Linnaeus, 1758. Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis ...
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Skylark guide: song, appearance and distribution. Learn about the skylark and the bird species song that has inspired poets and musicians down the centuries in our expert guide. Skylark song is one of the most evocative sounds of open farmland, moorland and coastal grasslands. From late February to early summer, the unending rising and falling ...
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The Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis) is a small passerine bird species. It is a wide-spread species found across Europe and Asia with introduced populations in many other parts of the world. The genus name is from the Latin alauda, "lark". Pliny thought the word was originally of Celtic origin. The specific arvensis is also Latin, and means ...
