Indeed, British musician David Hindley slowed bird song down and discovered parallels between the skylark's blizzard of notes and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony; between the woodlark's mind-numbingly ...

The image of the Lark ascending onto the horizon resonated with the mood of the time, which was characterised by a general ...

The skylark is one of the longest-singing birds in the world ... so that the calls sound over a large area. Their song is incredibly complex, incorporating up to 300 individual syllables.

As the day progresses, we hear from the skylark, willow warbler ... Sam Lee describes the musical phrases of a bird best known for its beautiful song. Meanwhile, The Verb celebrated the dawn ...