skylark

     

The Skylark (Alaua arvensis) is a small passerine bird species. This lark breeds across most of Europe and Asia and in the mountains of north Africa. It is mainly resident in the west of its range, but eastern populations are more migratory, moving further south in winter. Even in the milder west of its range, many birds move to lowlands and the coast in winter. Asian birds appear as vagrants in Alaska; this bird has also been introduced in Hawaii and western North America.

Trivia about skylark

  • Like Shelley, Wordsworth wrote a poem to this (the bird, not the Buick)
  • The "sky" type of this songbird, of which Shelley wrote, may be gone from Britain by 2009
  • Bird to which Shelley wrote, “Hail to thee, blithe spirit”
  • European high flyer seen here
  • Shelley said of this, "Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert!"; Wordsworth said they "soar but never roam"
  • Like Shelley, Johnny Mercer & Hoagy Carmichael wrote an ode to this title bird
  • One summer evening the song of this bird inspired Shelley to write his ode titled "to" it

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