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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Skylark

Skylark

(Sky Lark, Eurasian Sky Lark, Eurasian Skylark, European Skylark, Lark)

Alauda arvensis

Gaelic: Uiseag

 

Photography © Suzanne Harris
Uig - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
6th July, 2007

 

Our Skylark photographs

Skylark	Skylark

 

• Skylark
• Alauda arvensis
• Gaelic: Uiseag
• WI: Common breeder (1000 -10,000 breeding pairs) and fairly common winter visitor (occurs in small numbers)

 

Skylark records in the Western Isles

Common breeder (1000 -10,000 breeding pairs) and fairly common winter visitor (occurs in small numbers)
Source: Outer Hebrides Bird Report (2001)

On the chart below the darker the shade of blue the more abundant the Skylark is during a month or the more likely you are to see it.

J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D

(Source: Outer Hebrides Birds Checklist)

 

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