Eurasian skylark
The Eurasian skylark was described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his "Systema Naturae" and retains its original binomial name of "Alauda arvensis". It is one of the four species placed in the genus "Alauda". The genus name is from the Latin "alauda", "lark". Pliny thought the word was originally of Celtic origin. The specific "arvensis" is also Latin, and means "of the field". The results of a molecular phylogenetic study of the lark family Alaudidae published in 2013 suggested that Eurasian skylark is most closely related to the Oriental skylark "Alauda gulgula".