The song of the skylark is a small miracle. It seems to sound straight out of heaven. Often a hectic "prriit-prriit-prriit-prriit-prriit" can be heard - but not a bird to be seen far and wide. When singing, the male flutters up to 200 meters and thus makes himself invisible to us. No one knows where the little bird gets its air from so that it can cheer and soar at the same time. Anything to seduce a female.

Also over the Karrendorfer Wiesen near Greifswald an invisible lark man is singing from above. Good for ornithologists, because the skylark is considered endangered. For peat researchers, however, this is a clear sign that something is wrong here.

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