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Both are here, and admittedly, their plumages are very similar. The wood lark is a little smaller than the skylark – with a shorter tail, a small head crest and a little pink on the cheeks. Rising from the ground it flies in long arcs. The flight image isn’t as fluttery as the skylark’s, but rather goes in arcs and circles. The plumage of both is brownish – the underparts paler, on the crop area darker stripes.

 

We can meet the wood lark in heath and alvar forests and on alvars. The skylark always keeps to fields, meadows and open bog spaces.

 

The number of woodlarks is a hundred times smaller than that of skylarks. Nesters can be up to 5000 pairs in good years. Skylarks however are more than half a million pairs.