meadowlark

• She was fine-boned as a meadowlark and delicate as porcelain, perfectly formed, as we could plainly see for she wore nothing at all but a filigreed bracelet of silver, set with white shimmery stones and engraved with lines of curious Arab-looking stuff. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 06 - June 1997
• Lowering her window, she listened for the sounds she remembered: the call of a meadowlark, the creaking of crickets, the crunch of tires on the gravel that spilled from dirt shoulders onto the street. —  Asimov'sSF,April-May2008
• Minnesota has lost 99 percent of its original prairie landscape, according to the Lessard proposal, causing drastic declines in the numbers of American badgers and birds including the bobolink, grasshopper sparrow and Eastern meadowlark.
• They conducted a two-year study of regional viability of three grassland birds: the dickcissel, grasshopper sparrow and eastern meadowlark. —  innovations-report
• According to a 2007 report by The National Audubon Society, two of these species -- the grasshopper sparrow and eastern meadowlark -- have lost 62 percent and 75 percent, respectively, of their global population in the past 40 years. —  innovations-report

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