How To Use Skylark In A Sentence
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‘Tree surfing’ is euphoria-induced skylarking on a windy day.
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Other birds to benefit nationally include song thrushes, red kites, skylarks and nightjars.
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Some of these have images etched onto them - the background to the window shows some of God's creations which my father thought were especially lovely - tormentils, oystercatchers, skylarks and of course St. Margaret's Church.
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A similar ‘group hysteria,’ he adds, gripped hundreds of birders in California, who for days mistakenly took a skylark for a Smith's longspur.
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And we conclude this linguistic skylarking with this from AVP Australia.
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Aghazal played the cithara and sang all the lovely longing thoughts Akantha dared not speak aloud, and Adalana, with her flute, was an impertinent skylark who served as a go-between.
Wildfire
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A skylark high above the rooftops cried it with delight, `Burnell!
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Subway surfers find odd way to ride and die: MTA warnings against 'skylarking' have meaning again
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The poem is entitled Ode to Skylark.
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In a meadow on the hills that encompass the city, I found the American dandelion in bloom, and some large red clover, and started up some skylarks as I might start up the field sparrows in our own uplying fields.
Winter Sunshine
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More than 2,600 linnets, 100 yellowhammers, 229 reed buntings and 1,200 skylarks have been recorded along with smaller numbers of brambling, tree sparrows and chaffinches.
BBC News - Home
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In some ways the skylark is the sweetest singer we have; only certain of the thrushes rival it, but though the songs of the latter have perhaps even more melody, they are far from being as uninterrupted and well sustained, being rather a succession of broken bursts of music.
VI. A Trip on the Prairie
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Skylarks, one of Britain's most endangered birds, can be spotted near the sixth fairway, common lizard, brown hare and hen by the ninth and pied wagtail, wheatear and spotted flycatcher by the 18th.
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The area is host to wildlife such as owls, skylarks, brown hares and a host of wildlife of all kinds.
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He has pet names for her such as skylark, squirrel and featherbrain.
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Clearly, the pre-"Respect" Franklin could ace anything the label put before her—from Hoagy Carmichael's "Skylark" to Neal Hefti's "How to Murder Your Wife.
The Search for Aretha's Sound
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The conventional plots also held more weed seeds, which are important to birds such as skylarks and yellowhammers.
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Overgrazing on upland pastures is causing the decline of native species including skylarks, curlews and dotterels.
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The adoption of intensive farming methods across Britain since the 1970s has put birds such as the skylark and the yellowhammer on the danger list, with numbers falling by 50% since 1977.
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And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail, which have been seriously declining since the growth of intensive agriculture.
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Now the sound is as rare as the song of the skylark.
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Bucks skylarked with bucks or flirted with the maidens, while the older squaws, shut out from this by virtue of having fulfilled, by reproduction, the function of existence, gossiped as they braided rope from the green roots of trailing vines.
The God Of His Fathers
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Where once there were acres of grain, there are now acres of barnacle geese; where sheep once grazed, there are widgeon and teal; lapwing and redshanks have replaced the cattle; his new crops are spoonbills, snipe, skylarks and linnets.
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The trial has revealed that the breeding success of skylarks improved by around 50 per cent when small areas of cereal fields are left unsown.
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Skylarks sang over the wetlands, carnivorous butterworts were in violet flower and cotton grass fluffed up the land.
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The soaring song of the skylark, Percy Bysshe Shelley observed nearly 200 years ago, is like an unending ‘crystal stream’.
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Shelley called skylark a blithe spirit because of its happy song.
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The skylark and the ivy appear among their scenic properties, and in the best of them, _Woods in Winter_, it is the English "hawthorn" and not any
Brief History of English and American Literature
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And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail.
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I've yet to catch him up the riggings with the other boys - in fact, I don't think I've ever seen him just skylarking about.
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And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail, which have been seriously declining since the growth of intensive agriculture.
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A typical farming village in this region attracts tree sparrows, black redstarts, gray partridge, skylarks, and hen harriers.
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They are ground birds, with very long hind toes and claws, like those of skylarks, and they have a habit of running about like wagtails, though without flicking their tails.
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Set in wide margins they provide food and cover for wildlife, while the high grass shelters partridge, tree sparrows and skylarks.
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Right off the bat, 28-year-old Jazzmobile competition winner Brianna Thomas shatters three of my commandments: She scats to excess; she sings "Skylark" probably the most overdone song in recent memory; and she has the chutzpah to compose her own songs.
Prodigies, Mentors and Legends
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Bride: Though the skylark neither soars nor singsof a joy whose race is just beginning, I thee wed.
Poems for a wedding
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Somewhere overhead a skylark, the first I've heard this year, is singing.
Country diary: South Uist
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BLITHE X CHEERLESS Meaning: Gay, joyous Usage: Shelley called skylark a blithe spirit because of its happy song.
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Other species in danger are the brown hare, skylark, linnet, reed bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, bullfinch, song thrush and grass-wrack pondweed.
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There's a wedding party in progress at the top table - an assortment of older relatives, skylarking kids and well-upholstered bridesmaids.
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Oh, and to answer your question, fair reader: I wore my double-breasted zoot suit, purchased for $40 at a thrift store in Pittsboro, NC - the bowtie is the Skylark from the Bow Tie Club.
Mazeltov
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The wind chill factor on the roof of the alps puts the temperature at about minus 10C but we wade knee-deep in pristine powder, waving our arms and skylarking like the Beatles in Help.
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Next time I trash a restaurant, I'm going to use the ‘cheeky and hilarious Millsy skylarking defense’ and see how far I get.
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The upside of this is that it's a good excuse to ditch the usual skylarking.
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A gang of uncouth practical jokers, exploding in horse-laughter, skylarked about, jostling rudely.
The Forest
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But there was nothing to dull the spirits of the water-carriers, and they romped and skylarked like a party of schoolboys.
Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea
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Skylarks, wheatears, pipits and greylag geese fill any silences that remain.
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Together with the introduced species of chaffinch, goldfinch, yellowhammer, skylark, magpie, etc, they provide a tuneful accompaniment to your walk.
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All country people know that the skylark is a very shy bird; that its abode is the open fields; that it settles on the ground only; that it seeks safety in the wideness of space; that it avoids enclosures, and is never seen in gardens.
The Bed-Book of Happiness
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Then he heard a skylark sing, saw the bird begin its ascent.
THE GOLDEN LION
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He was skylarking with mates over a few beers and took what he thought was an empty nail gun and pointed it at his head.
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says that nests of species such as short-eared owls, merlins, red grouse, meadow pipits, skylarks, twite and curlews will have been wiped out.
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He could see into the rooms of the other class dormitories, where the students studied, skylarked, rough-housed, or conversed on innumerable topics; from a room in Nordyke, the abode of care-free Juniors, a splendidly blended sextette sang songs of their
T. Haviland Hicks Senior
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds says that nests of species such as short-eared owls, merlins, red grouse, meadow pipits, skylarks, twite and curlews will have been wiped out.
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Earlier this month the area between seven and six furlongs was flailed and the nesting skylarks took flight.
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Among the midshipmen who bunked, messed, and skylarked together in the steerage of the "Essex," was one lad whose name in later days was to be inscribed on the roll of the greatest naval heroes of history.
The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
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Nightingale, blackcap, skylark, blackbird, woodlark — those are the songs humans go for.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the open moor, skylarks were in the nesting season; I saw several at close range, and heard them overhead almost without ceasing.
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The data collection, which is being funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, has already taken place involving a variety of farmland birds, including skylarks and yellowhammers.
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Tree sparrow numbers have declined by 95 per cent since 1970, corn buntings by 85 per cent, turtle doves by 70 per cent and skylarks by 52 per cent.
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If we did that, we would destroy the nests of the skylark and meadow pipit, which is illegal.
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Only a few other North American sparrows have ever been observed to "skylark".
Mystery bird: Cassin's sparrow, Peucaea cassinii
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Carinthia, suddenly wedded, passionately grateful for humbleness exalted, virginly sensible of treasures of love to give, resembled the inanimate and most inspiring, was mindless and inexpressive, past memory, beyond the hopes, a thing of the thrilled blood and skylark air, since she laid her hand in this young man's.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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Such ancient grassland might have 30 species of plant in a single square metre and innumerable invertebrate animals which have supported such remarkable birds as the stone curlew and many skylarks.
Letters: Vanished landscape
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The public is being asked to survey kingfishers, skylarks, water voles and hedgehogs so that as much information as possible can be gathered.
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This will create the right conditions for wildlife to flourish like voles, skylarks and meadow pipits.
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One of its most important roles is as a habitat for ground-nesting birds, including the increasingly-rare skylarks and meadow pipits.
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A number of these will be well known to golfers such as, the red-necked phalarope, the blacktailed godwit and the skylark to name but a few.
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The beautiful underfoot carpets of blue gentium delight the eye and, above fly buzzards, eagles, skylarks and wheatears.
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Bucks skylarked with bucks or flirted with the maidens, while the older squaws, shut out from this by virtue of having fulfilled the end of their existence in reproduction, gossiped as they braided rope from the green roots of trailing vines.
THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS
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An area of grassland near Lower Pen Pond was designated a protected zone to encourage the skylarks to breed undisturbed.
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Here y'are -- right here!" clarioned Mr. Cassidy as the first skylarkish pair showed in the doorway.
The Life of the Party
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n. state of having wings; disposition of wings in insect. phr. - adj. belonging to bird family which includes the skylark; like or pertaining to skylark. albicant adj. - growing white. albication, n. albugo
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The Missouri titlark is the American bird which is most like the skylark of Europe.
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The valley supports important populations of more than 80 birds, including skylarks and barn owls.
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They are ground birds, with very long hind toes and claws, like those of skylarks, and they have a habit of running about like wagtails, though without flicking their tails.
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Songbirds such as the linnet, yellowhammer, skylark and song thrush to name but a few, are fast disappearing in our gardens and countryside.
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In the North, they would be swimming, roaming the wilderness, playing video games, or otherwise skylarking - or so Mark Twain implies.
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Species such as skylark, twite and meadow pipit were found to be decreasing in number in the inspection carried out jointly with English Nature.
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The mood is one of hope, lambent optimism for the future, and the streets are busy: wares, from hammocks to human hair brushes to hawksbill turtle shells, are being hawked with zest; horse-drawn buggies spindle in and about the cobblestone streets; children are skylarking in the alleys.
Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time
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Because the road is rough and long, shall we despise the skylark's song?
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The passengers played cards, and read and sang and skylarked about the decks.
Jimmie Higgins
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It would be like trying to hear a distant skylark's song standing beside the M1 during the rush hour.
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For example, an adult skylark was found with 48 weevils in its stomach.
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Chasing girls, a bit of skylarking, the obligatory chugalug at the bar.
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It is hoped that birds such as the lapwing, skylark and redshank will increasingly use the sites as well as butterflies such as the green hairstreak.
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On farmland, the numbers of song thrushes fell by 66 per cent between 1972 and 1996, of bullfinches by 62 per cent, of skylarks by 75 per cent, of linnets by 40 per cent, of spotted flycatchers by 78 per cent and of lapwings by 46 per cent.
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He was not involved in any skylarking escapade.
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In the UK between 1970 and 1999 the skylark had declined by 52 per cent, the yellowhammer by 53 per cent and the corn bunting by 88 per cent.
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Beneath the skylarks and the scudding clouds, no more than a conversation between people and chalk grass, this was a war memorial I could understand.
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Cold hard bright spring day, and skylarks singing their unending melody, with its usual challenging radiophonic effects.
Times, Sunday Times
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Skylarks, wheatears, pipits and greylag geese fill any silences that remain.
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All the flower colours here come from green, as do the songs of willow warbler, chaffinch and skylark.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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He proposed simple solutions such as skylark breeding plots, which farmers are already beginning to take up.
Epolitix News
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Bucks skylarked with bucks or flirted with the maidens, while the older squaws, shut out from this by virtue of having fulfilled the end of their existence in reproduction, gossiped as they braided rope from the green roots of trailing vines.
THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS
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Head eastwards across the grassy plateau to Ben Tirran, keeping an eye out for the birds that inhabit Scotland's high moorlands - curlew, ptarmigan, skylarks singing as they rise and, if you're lucky, the shy dotterel.
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But even as the creature stepped backward, the shadows seemed to simply grow heavier, obscuring, blending with the black robes … and then the light strengthened, and there was nothing but shadow under Skylark's rearmost wing.
Archive 2010-04-01
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A typical farming village in this region attracts tree sparrows, black redstarts, gray partridge, skylarks, and hen harriers.
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The moorland nests of skylarks, curlews, lapwings and twite are being bulldozed to make way for concrete pits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Among the birds which have suffered catastrophic losses over the past 30 years are the tree sparrow, grey partridge, lapwing, curlew, snipe, skylark, corncrake, corn bunting, black and red grouse.
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In summer this is a green and lush place, the haunt of meadow pipits and skylarks.
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They come across as skylarking high school and college kids as they cavort in the left field stands at Veterans Stadium.
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A skylark high above the rooftops cried it with delight, `Burnell!
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Neither drew free breath again till they were out of the house, and out of the garden, and out of the castle, and on the wide, thymy downs, with the blue sky above, where the skylarks sang, and there was the sweet, fresh scent of the seaweed and the bean-fields.
The House of Arden
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There were twenty men in each mess, and seventeen messes on that particular mess-deck, and here the members simultaneously ate, slept, sang, washed their clothes, cursed and laughed, skylarked or quarrelled all round during the waking hours of their watch-off.
A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions
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And from that point on, no skylark or sparrow or finch within a bull's roar of Wainui Beach was safe.
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The skylark finds its way into our art and into our music.
Country diary: South Uist
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The sun-warmed sound of a skylark pours out of a hazy blue sky, contrasting oddly with the wild, skirling squawks of the kittiwakes and fulmars swooping and wheeling below the cliffs.
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Such ancient grassland might have 30 species of plant in a single square metre and innumerable invertebrate animals which have supported such remarkable birds as the stone curlew and many skylarks.
Letters: Vanished landscape
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The local robins have been singing to guard their territories all winter, of course, but over the last couple of days I've heard them joined by blackbirds, great tits, chaffinches, skylarks and a small brown stripey bird that I think was a dunnock, all proclaiming, "This is my bit, come and set up home with me!
Signs of spring
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Once-common bird species like the skylark and lapwing are on the point of disappearing.
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Then he heard a skylark sing, saw the bird begin its ascent.
THE GOLDEN LION
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By the end of the show, Ridge and Ellis had Laws bleating like a kidnapped baby goat: ‘We were doing all the work and they were skylarking!’
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Songbirds such as the linnet, yellowhammer, skylark and song thrush to name but a few, are fast disappearing in our gardens and countryside.
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Before it was formalized and called parkour, it was called skylarking and sailors did it in the rigging or whatever they had.
Bond, James BoooOOAAAGHHH!!
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The Red List also features a disturbingly high number of formerly common farmland birds which are rapidly declining: tree sparrow, grey partridge, spotted flycatcher, song thrush, skylark, linnet and turtle dove.
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He thought of things far away down the perspective of memory, of jolly moments when his father had skylarked with a wildly excited little boy, of a certain annual visit to the Crystal Palace pantomime, full of trivial glittering incidents and wonders, of his father's dread back while customers were in the old, minutely known shop.
The History of Mr. Polly
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A pair of yellowhammers looked bleached in the bright sun, skylarks sang and settled in fallow or set-aside fields.
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Apart from the Skylark launch vehicle, MASER 10 comprised four experiment modules, a service module and a recovery system.
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Sheep eyed us all the way, lapwing cried, a skylark ascended to the clouds and an electronic bleep made Lesley check her camera.
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If It isn't a ticket that includes Hillary, I will vote for McCain skylark
Three more superdelegates for Obama
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To walk across fields and meadows in early summer and no longer see a speck in the sky and hear a sweet trill like song and crescendo of melodic notes from the skylark.
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The air was full of the scents of sage and wild thyme, and the song of the skylark.
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His acquisitive hands skylarked through the strands of her auburn hair.
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The Red List also features a disturbingly high number of formerly common farmland birds which are rapidly declining: tree sparrow, grey partridge, spotted flycatcher, song thrush, skylark, linnet and turtle dove.
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Skylark is the free spirit on silent prairie, happy angel.
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Listen carefully, and you might hear the uplifting song of the skylark.
