Eurasian Skylark

The Eurasian skylark is a streaked brown lark of open ground, with buff-white underparts, a streaked breast, a small crest and white edges to the outer tail. The sexes look alike. On the ground its cryptic plumage blends into soil and short vegetation, but displaying males become conspicuous as they rise high above a territory and deliver a prolonged, varied song while hovering. The broad trailing edge of the wing appears pale in flight. (Wikipedia, Eurasian skylark account)

Eurasian skylarks occupy farmland, grassland and heath across Europe and the Palearctic; named subspecies occur in both southwestern and northern-eastern Mongolia. They eat seeds and invertebrates, with insects especially important to growing young. The female makes an open cup in a shallow ground depression away from trees and hedges, lays three to five eggs and incubates for about eleven days. Both parents feed the chicks, which leave the exposed nest before they can fly. (Wikipedia, Eurasian skylark account)