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Message: <blockquote data-quote="silvercrest" data-source="post: 1470855" data-attributes="member: 75869"><p>skylarks look quite plump.  meadow pipits are much more slender, and browner, and look like little song thrushes.  you cant get within a couple of hundred feet of a skylark, but you can often get quite close to a meadow pipit.  meadow pipits will often sit until youre fairly close before they flush, and they dance around daintily, usually calling tseep-tseep as they fly daintily around you, reasonably close - thats my experience anyway</p></blockquote><p></p>