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Eurasian Skylark

Alauda arvensis

Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Larks
Eurasian Skylark, photographed by TheOtherKev

Photo: TheOtherKev · Pixabay · Pixabay Content License (licence)

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Call and song

About the Eurasian Skylark

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. Chunkier than pipits, and does not habitually bob its rear end. In flight shows white sides to tail and narrow white trailing edge to wings. A denizen of open country, especially rough grassland, heathland, farmland, and airports.

Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made

Where it has been recorded

Recorded in 100 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.

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