Jungal
Safari

Lark

Alauda arvensis

• ⚡32 km/hSpeed
• ⚖️33-45 g kgWeight
• 📏18-19 cmLength
• 🕐5-8 yearsLifespan

• 🔍 A male skylark can sustain a continuous song flight lasting over an hour, rising to heights of 200-300 metres.
• 🔍 Their song contains up to 460 distinct syllable types and can be heard from over 1 km away.
• 🔍 Skylarks walk rather than hop, an adaptation to ground-level life in open, unobstructed terrain.
• 🔍 UK skylark populations have declined by over 75% since the 1970s, primarily due to agricultural intensification.
• 🔍 They nest in shallow scrapes on the ground and use a cunning 'false entrance' approach — walking a distance from the nest before landing — to avoid revealing its location.