Talk:Eurasian skylark

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Comment[edit]

I do like how both real pictures of the Skylark have it eating bugs XD —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.170.195.144 (talk) 01:43, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Image[edit]

Is it possible to obtain a photo of a skylark, rather than a painting? DS 17:06, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

photo would be good if you know of one in the public domain. jimfbleak 17:40, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

There is one on the Dansk language wiki which I have linked to this page. This image has good resolution and might need trimming or resizing to go in the taxobox to show the bird relitively enlarged. Snowman 17:41, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Sangl%C3%A6rke.jpg

Any lark expert care to take a look at that photo? Looks more like some sort of pipit... Gnusmas 14:14, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I do not know. I found it on the Dansk language wiki, which claimed that it was a skylark. If it is a pipit the Dansk language wiki also needs correcting. Snowman 18:27, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

looks like a Meadow Pipit, definitely not a lark of any kind, jimfbleak 06:18, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Thanks for the confirmation. Image link now removed, and I have also sent an email (via the Danish wiki) to the person whose photo it is. Gnusmas 09:01, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I good photo of a Skylark has recently been added. Snowman 10:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

tall crested skylark and eating baby bird poop.[edit]

On Arirang tv they have this nature show with simplified English. They showed the Eurasian skylark and the tall crested eurasian skylark. I may have the name wrong but the tall crested had a funny tuft of feathers that stuck up kinda funny. I turned away from the tv for a bit and they showed one of these birds feeding it's baby. It gave the chick a larva. The baby instinctively deficates when fed and the mother bird eats the feces. The narrator said it was to keep the smell from attracting preditors. They also made a big deal about these birds not landing at the nest but instead landing away from the nest and walking to the nest once they are sure there are no preditors. --Gbleem 09:39, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Skylark in culture[edit]

In Australia, to 'skylark' is to engage in silly behaviour, though I'm not sure of the origins of this usage.

See Jake Kovco for an example of this usage in common text. 203.2.182.254 04:38, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Purpose of the song[edit]

Is it possible to say anything more about the purpose of the song? The Oxford Book of Birds (1973) says that it is for male display, but as the song continues for most of the year in the UK, I find this difficult to understand as a bald statement. --Martin Wyatt (talk) 19:15, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

time of breeding[edit]

Three to six eggs are laid in June. A second or third brood may be started later in the year.

This can't be correct, resp. the combination of these two sentenses makes it wrong. First breeding happens much earlier, in early spring. If the first breeding was to happen only in June, then there would be no time for a 2nd, leave alone a (rare anyways) 3rd breeding. 46.142.80.74 (talk) 14:42, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You are right, this seems incorrect. Annoyingly, this section lacks a source, and I don't have time to go rustle one up now. I checked with the equivalent (well-developed) article on the German WP [1], which gives late March to early April as first nesting dates (but also welches on the source, because they have that maddening General References habit over at dewiki). Changed accordingly but still needs referencing. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 15:02, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Exaltation" of larks?[edit]

The OED lists three instances of the term's use over about 450 years including its first by Lydgate in 1430. Then it took off when 20th Century publishers began compiling lists of collective nouns. We don't even know if Lydgate observed the term or coined it himself. The OED calls it "fanciful" and "obsolete".

People don't say "a shrewdness of apes", "a embarrassment of pandas", or "an obstinacy of buffalo" any more than they say "exaltation of larks". These are the sorts of "fun facts" one finds in books of trivia left by the toilet in certain households. These terms don't reflect real speech. They reflect the desire of editors to find amusing content. Let's leave "Exaltation of larks" in List of animal names and keep the article about larks. --Cornellier (talk) 03:28, 7 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]